{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1495",
  "legislation_title": "The Ship and Port Facility (Security) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ship-and-port-facility-security-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Unauthorised presence in a restricted area of a port facility",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not—\n(a) go, onto or into any part of a restricted area of a port facility except with the permission of the port facility security officer or a person acting on his behalf, and in accordance with any conditions subject to which that permission is for the time being granted, or\n(b) remain in any part of such a restricted area after being requested to leave by the port facility security officer or a person acting on his behalf.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Subject to paragraph 3A, a person who contravenes paragraph (1) without lawful authority or reasonable excuse is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3A) A person who contravenes paragraph (1)(a) is not guilty of an offence unless it is proved that, at the material time, notices stating that the area concerned was a restricted area were posted so as to be readily seen and read by persons entering the area.\n(4) A constable, or the port facility security officer, or a person acting on behalf of the port facility security officer, may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances to remove from a restricted area a person remaining in it in contravention of paragraph (1)(b).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(2) omitted (1.7.2005) by virtue of The Ship and Port Facility (Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1434), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(3) inserted (1.7.2005) by The Ship and Port Facility (Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1434), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 11(3A) inserted (1.7.2005) by The Ship and Port Facility (Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1434), regs. 1, 2(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1495/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:24:13.490930+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."
}