{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-security-regulations-2009/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-security-regulations-2009/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2048",
  "legislation_title": "The Port Security Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-security-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Approval of the port security plan",
  "text": "(1) A Port Security Authority must request approval from the Secretary of State for the port security plan within 12 months of the designation of that Port Security Authority.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, in respect of a request under paragraph (1)—\n(a) approve,\n(b) refuse to approve, or\n(c) approve subject to amendment,\nthe port security plan.\n(3) When, or at any time after, approving a port security plan (whether or not subject to amendment), the Secretary of State may notify the Port Security Authority of types of amendments to the port security plan that must be submitted to the Secretary of State for approval before those amendments are implemented.\n(4) Where a Port Security Authority has received a notification under paragraph (3), that Port Security Authority must request an approval from the Secretary of State before implementing an amendment to the port security plan of any type specified in that notification and must not implement that amendment until an approval has been obtained.\n(5) The Secretary of State may in respect of a request under paragraph (4)—\n(a) approve,\n(b) refuse to approve, or\n(c) approve subject to further amendment,\nan amendment to a port security plan.\n(6) Any request under this regulation must be in writing, and a request for approval under—\n(a) paragraph (1) must be accompanied by a copy of the port security plan;\n(b) paragraph (4) must be accompanied by a copy of the port security plan and an explanation of the proposed amendments.\n(7) The Secretary of State may request additional information in support of a request for approval under paragraph (1) or paragraph (4).\n(8) If the Secretary of State fails to give or refuse approval within 30 days of the date of receipt of a request under paragraph (1) or (4), or of the date on which the Secretary of State requested additional information under paragraph (7), whichever is later, the Secretary of State shall be deemed to have refused to give approval for the plan or amendment in question.\n(9) If the Secretary of State has, or is deemed to have, refused to approve a request made under paragraph (1) the Port Security Authority must, within 30 days of that refusal or deemed refusal, revise the port security plan and submit a further request for approval.\n(10) Paragraphs (2), (6), (7), (8) and (9) apply to a further request made under paragraph (9) as they do to a request made under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2048/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:07:37.619667+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."
}