{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-revision-order-1997/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2949",
  "legislation_title": "The Portland Harbour Revision Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-revision-order-1997",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Aids to navigation",
  "text": "(1) In addition to their powers under section 201 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (powers of harbour authorities as local lighthouse authorities) but subject to obtaining any necessary interest in or over land, the Company may erect or place, alter, discontinue or remove aids to navigation in any place adjacent to the harbour.\n(2) The Company shall not exercise the powers of paragraph (1) above—\n(a) without the approval of the Trinity House; or\n(b) within the limits of Weymouth Harbour or on land immediately adjacent thereto, without the approval of the Council in writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2949/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:52.626361+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."
}