{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portsmouth-millennium-waterbus-landing-stages-harbour-revision-order-2000/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portsmouth-millennium-waterbus-landing-stages-harbour-revision-order-2000/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2251",
  "legislation_title": "The Portsmouth (Millennium Waterbus Landing Stages) Harbour Revision Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portsmouth-millennium-waterbus-landing-stages-harbour-revision-order-2000",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Abatement of works abandoned or decayed",
  "text": "(1) Where a tidal work forming part of the Camber Landing Stage or the Gunwharf Landing Stage is abandoned or suffered to fall into decay, the Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the City Council at its own expense either to repair and restore the work or any part thereof, or to remove the work and restore the site thereof to its former condition, to such an extent and within such limits as the Secretary of State thinks proper.\n(2) Where a tidal work forming part of the HMS Alliance Landing Stage is abandoned or suffered to fall into decay, the Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the Borough Council at its own expense either to repair and restore the work or any part thereof, or to remove the work and restore the site thereof to its former condition, to such an extent and within such limits as the Secretary of State thinks proper.\n(3) Where a work consisting partly of a tidal work and partly of works on or over land above the level of high water is abandoned or suffered to fall into decay and that part of the work on or over land above the level of high water is in such condition as to interfere or to cause reasonable apprehension that it may interfere with the right of navigation or other public rights over the foreshore, the Secretary of State may include that part of the work or any portion thereof in any notice under this article.\n(4) If on the expiration of thirty days from the date when a notice under this article is served upon the City Council or, as the case may be, the Borough Council, it has failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Secretary of State may execute the works specified in the notice; and any expenditure incurred by him in so doing shall be recoverable from the City Council or, as the case may be, the Borough Council, as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2251/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:36:21.024222+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."
}