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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-state-for-transport-harbour-authorities-charging-scheme-1982/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/9",
  "legislation_title": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Harbour Authorities) Charging Scheme 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-state-for-transport-harbour-authorities-charging-scheme-1982",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by notice in writing served on a contributing authority require that authority to furnish him with any information which the Secretary of State may require for the purpose of this Scheme, being information relating to—\n(a) any harbour which that contributing authority are engaged in improving, maintaining or managing; or\n(b) any activities carried on by them at such a harbour; or\n(c) any property used by them for the purpose of such a harbour,\nand the Secretary of State may by such notice as aforesaid require the contributing authority on whom it is served to verify any of the information which they are required by that notice to furnish to the Secretary of State.\n(2) A contributing authority who fail to comply with any requirement of a notice served on them under paragraph (1) above (unless they prove that they had reasonable excuse for the failure) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.\n(3) An apportionment made by the Secretary of State in accordance with article 3(2) of this Scheme shall not be invalid on the grounds that it is based on information furnished by a contributing authority which subsequently proves to be inaccurate.\n(4) If it appears to the Secretary of State that a contributing authority have failed to furnish him with information as to their relevant income in a financial year after being required to do so by a notice served under paragraph (1) above or that any such information which they have furnished is unreliable he may, for the purpose of making an apportionment in accordance with article 3(2) of this Scheme, estimate as best he can the amount of the authority's relevant income in that year and the apportionment shall not for that reason be invalid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/9/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:27:33.770682+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."
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