{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1088",
  "legislation_title": "The Port of Tyne Harbour Revision Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Payment of charges",
  "text": "(1) The charges which the Authority is authorised to demand, take and recover in respect of vessels and goods or otherwise under any enactment—\n(a) are payable before the removal from the port of any vessel or goods in respect of which they are payable;\n(b) may be demanded, taken and recovered—\n(i) by such persons,\n(ii) at such places,\n(iii) at such times,\n(iv) under such terms and conditions,\nas the Authority may specify in its published list of charges.\n(2) Charges payable to the Authority in respect of—\n(a) a vessel, are payable by the owner or master;\n(b) goods, are payable by the owner, consignee or shipper of the goods.\n(3) Where charges payable to the Authority may be recovered from more than one person, the persons from whom they may be recovered are jointly and severally liable.\n(4) Without limitation to the scope of paragraph (1), any terms and conditions regarding the payment of charges which the Authority may specify may include—\n(a) the time when a charge is due for payment;\n(b) requirements for such information to be given to the Authority by the owner or master of a vessel or the owner, consignee or shipper of goods, or a person using a service or facility of the Authority, as the Authority may require in connection with the assessment or collection of a charge.\n(5) Where charges payable to the Authority have not been paid by the time they are due for payment, until such charges have been paid in full the Authority may refuse entry to, require removal from, or detain within, the port—\n(a) the vessel or goods to which the charges relate; and\n(b) any other vessels or goods that the—\n(i) owner or master of the vessel, or\n(ii) owner of the goods,\nto which the charges relate is also the owner or master of.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1088/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:53:52.533021+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."
}