{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-babcock-rosyth-harbour-empowerment-order-2009/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-babcock-rosyth-harbour-empowerment-order-2009/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/27",
  "legislation_title": "The Port Babcock Rosyth Harbour Empowerment Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-babcock-rosyth-harbour-empowerment-order-2009",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Restriction of works and dredging",
  "text": "(1) No person other than the Company shall in the port–\n(a) alter, renew or maintain any works; or\n(b) dredge;\nunless that person has contracted with the Company to do so.\n(2) Any person who contravenes this article shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) The Company may by notice require a person who contravenes this article to remove, abate or rectify, within a reasonable time specified in the notice, any work, operation or omission to which the contravention relates and to restore the site thereof to its former condition; and if that person fails to comply with the notice the Company may carry out the works so required and may recover the cost of so doing from that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/27/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:03:30.542383+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}