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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-terrorism-temporary-provisions-act-1989-repealed/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/4",
  "legislation_title": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-terrorism-temporary-provisions-act-1989-repealed",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Port and border controls.",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect for conferring powers to examine persons or goods arriving in or leaving Great Britain or Northern Ireland and for connected purposes.\n(2) The exercise of the examination and detention powers conferred by paragraphs 2 and 6 of that Schedule shall be subject to supervision in accordance with Schedule 3 to this Act.\n(3) The designated ports for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to this Act shall be those specified in Schedule 6 to this Act but the Secretary of State may by order add any port to, or remove any port from, that Schedule.\n(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act with respect to persons who enter or leave Northern Ireland by land or who seek to do so, the Secretary of State may by order make such further provision with respect to those persons as appears to him to be expedient.\n(5) The power to make orders under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(6) An order under subsection (4) above may contain transitional provisions and savings and shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted in s. 16(1) (3.4.1996) by 1996 c. 7, s. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16(2) applied (2.8.1993) by S.I. 1993/1813, art. 6, Sch. 3, Pt. I, para. 3(4)(Foreign Office Library)"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 16: power previously exercised by S.I. 1990/1579"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 16(3): power exercised (21.11.1991) by S.I. 1991/2649."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/4/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:17.782285+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."
}