{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/22",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Extent of Port of London",
  "text": "In this Act, “the Port of London” means the port of that name appointed for the purposes of the enactments relating to customs or excise, together with all such waters between—\n(a) the seaward limit of the port as so established, and\n(b) imaginary straight lines drawn from latitude 51° 37” 00’ north, longitude 0° 57” 19’ east (Foulness Point in the county of Essex) to latitude 51° 46” 05’ north, longitude 1° 20” 32’ east (Gunfleet Old Lighthouse) and thence to latitude 51° 26” 36’ north, longitude 1° 25” 30’ east and thence to latitude 51° 24” 55’ north, longitude 0° 54” 21’ east (Warden Point in the county of Kent),\nas immediately before the coming into force of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 were within the territorial waters of Her Majesty’s dominions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 8"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:29.143511+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."
}