{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-52.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/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Control of certain operations and works of statutory undertakers",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any operations or works in the port of a statutory undertaker on, under, in or over tidal waters or land below the level of high water, not being operations or works which are specifically authorised by an enactment.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a statutory undertaker must not carry out any operations or works to which this article applies unless it has given notice of its intention to do so to the Authority and has supplied the Authority with such particulars as it may reasonably require.\n(3) Where, in an emergency, it is impracticable to give notice as required by paragraph (2), the statutory undertaker must inform the Authority of the operations or works as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(4) Any operations or works to which this article applies must be carried out subject to any directions which may be given by the Authority to the statutory undertaker, being directions for the avoidance of danger and the prevention, so far as possible, of interference with navigation in the carrying out of such operations or works.\n(5) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this article is 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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1088/article/52",
    "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."
}