{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-security-port-of-dover-designation-order-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/3045",
  "legislation_title": "The Port Security (Port of Dover) Designation Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-security-port-of-dover-designation-order-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Port boundary",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(2)(a) of the Port Security Regulations 2009 the port of Dover is comprised of —\n(a) the area of land and water delineated in red on the plan set out in Schedule 1 (“the Dover Harbour area”); and\n(b) an area of land and water which is on the seaward side of the Dover Harbour area and is bounded by—\n(i) straight lines joining the points A to B, B to C, C to D, D to E and E to F, and\n(ii) lines tracking the level of mean low water springs joining the points X to A and Y to F,\nwhere the co-ordinates of points A, B, C, D, E and F are as set out in Schedule 2 and the positions of points X and Y are determined as set out in article 2(2) and article 2(3) respectively.\n(2) Point X is the point where the shortest line tracking the level of mean low water springs which can be drawn from point A to the boundary of the Dover Harbour area first intersects with the boundary of the Dover Harbour area.\n(3) Point Y is the point where the shortest line tracking the level of mean low water springs which can be drawn from point F to the boundary of the Dover Harbour area first intersects with the boundary of the Dover Harbour area.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 31.1.2012, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/2048."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/3045/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:47.640312+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."
}