{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-mersey-mersey-gateway-bridge-order-2011/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-mersey-mersey-gateway-bridge-order-2011/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/41",
  "legislation_title": "The River Mersey (Mersey Gateway Bridge) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-mersey-mersey-gateway-bridge-order-2011",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Restriction on mooring of vessels, etc.",
  "text": "(1) During the period of the construction of the new crossing, a person who is not engaged in the construction of the authorised works shall not, without the consent in writing of the relevant navigation authority and the undertaker (which consent may be given subject to conditions), moor any vessel or place any article over or on the bed of any relevant navigation within the new crossing area; and after that period, a person shall not within an exclusion zone—\n(a) so moor without the consent of the relevant navigation authority;\n(b) so place without the consent of the relevant navigation authority and the undertaker; or\n(c) anchor any vessel except in an emergency.\n(2) The restrictions in paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to the relevant navigation from a day 14 days after notice of their imposition on that relevant navigation has been published in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which the authorised works are situated or the day on which a plan, chart or map showing the exclusion zone has been deposited at the principal office of any relevant navigation authority whichever is later.\n(3) In this article “exclusion zone” means so much of any relevant navigation as is bounded by imaginary parallel lines drawn at a distance of 40 metres on either side of the centre line of the new crossing.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 20 in force at 1.2.2011, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/41/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:20:37.203368+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."
}