{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-colne-barrier-wivenhoe-order-1991/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-colne-barrier-wivenhoe-order-1991/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1760",
  "legislation_title": "The River Colne Barrier (Wivenhoe) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-colne-barrier-wivenhoe-order-1991",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Approval by Secretary of State to tidal works and deposit of spoil",
  "text": "(1) (a) A tidal work shall not be constructed, renewed or altered except in accordance with plans and sections approved by the Secretary of State for Transport and subject to any conditions and restrictions imposed by him before the work is begun.\n(b) If a tidal work is constructed, renewed or altered in contravention of this section or of any condition or restriction imposed under this section–\n(i) the Secretary of State for Transport may by notice in writing require the Rivers Authority at their own expense to remove the tidal work or any part thereof and restore the site thereof to its former condition; and, if, on the expiration of thirty days from the date when the notice is served upon the Rivers Authority, they have failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Secretary of State may execute the works specified in the notice; or\n(ii) if it appears to the Secretary of State urgently necessary so to do, he may himself remove the tidal work or part of it and restore the site to its former condition;\nand any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State for Transport in so doing shall be recoverable from the Rivers Authority as a simple contract debt.\n(2) Any materials taken up or collected in the course of the construction of the works or of dredging operations in the exercise of the powers of Article 16 of this Order shall be the property of the Rivers Authority and may be used, sold, removed, deposited or otherwise disposed of as the Rivers Authority may think fit:\nProvided that no such materials shall be deposited below the level of mean high-water springs except after consultation with the Colchester Port Authority and in accordance with–\n(a) such conditions and restrictions as may be approved by the Secretary of State for Transport; and\n(b) Part II of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rep in pt (28.5.2001)",
      "affecting": "ukla/2001/2",
      "affecting_title": "Colchester Borough Council Act 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1760/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:03.542496+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."
}