{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2001/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2001/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/416",
  "legislation_title": "The Port of Tyne Harbour Revision Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2001",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Restriction of dredging",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, no person other than the Authority shall dredge on, under or over tidal waters or land below the level of high water in the Port unless he is licensed so to do by a dredging licence, and no such person shall do so except upon the terms and conditions, if any, upon which the licence is granted and in accordance with plans, sections and particulars approved in pursuance of article 7 of this Order.\n(2) The Authority may by notice require a person who contravenes this article to abate or rectify, within a reasonable time specified in the notice, any operation or omission to which the contravention relates and to restore the site thereon to its former condition; and if he fails to comply with the notice, the Authority may carry out the works so required and may recover from him the cost of so doing.\n(3) Nothing in this article shall apply to—\n(a) any operations specifically authorised by any enactment; or\n(b) any operations of a statutory undertaker.\n(4) Any person who without reasonable excuse 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2222",
      "affecting_title": "The River Tyne (Tunnels) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/416/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:04:00.727673+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."
}