{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-designation-england-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/685",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Wrecks (Designation) (England) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-designation-england-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Identification of sites and designation of restricted areas",
  "text": "(1) This Order is made in respect of three sites where a vessel or vessels lie, or are supposed to lie, wrecked on or in the sea bed.\n(2) The sites are listed in the first column of the Schedule and the position of each site is given in the corresponding entry in the second column of the Schedule.\n(3) For each site so listed, the area within the distance specified in the corresponding entry in the third column of the Schedule is designated as a restricted area.\n(4) A restricted area designated under paragraph (3) does not include any part of that area which is above high water mark of ordinary spring tides.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The positions of the sites identified in the Schedule are defined by co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84), as revised in 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/685/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:27.279333+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."
}