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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-revision-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-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": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The master of a small vessel which is not confined to a fairway shall not make use of the fairway so as to cause obstruction to other vessels which can navigate only within the fairway; and when navigating across a fairway or through an entrance to the inner harbour, he shall do so by the shortest possible route that will avoid such obstruction.\n(2) The master of a small vessel shall not hamper the safe passage of any vessel greater than 20 metres in length which is in, entering or leaving a fairway or which is under way within the inner harbour.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2949/schedule/1/paragraph/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."
}