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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-birkenhead-harbour-empowerment-order-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-birkenhead-harbour-empowerment-order-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1016",
  "legislation_title": "The Port of Birkenhead Harbour Empowerment Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-birkenhead-harbour-empowerment-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order authorises Birkenhead Port Limited (the applicants for the Order) to construct and maintain specified works at Birkenhead and to carry out subsidiary works. The specified works, together with adjacent land of the Company used for the business, form the “port premises”.\nThe Order defines the limits of jurisdiction of the Company as a harbour authority and confers various powers on the Company for the operation and maintenance of its undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1016/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:22.719683+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."
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