{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stornoway-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2019/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stornoway-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2019/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2019/76",
  "legislation_title": "The Stornoway Port Authority Harbour Revision Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stornoway-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2019",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power to dredge",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any other powers which may be exercisable by the Authority within the harbour, the Authority may, for the purposes of constructing and maintaining the works or the harbour, and of affording access to the harbour by vessels, from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve so much of the bed, shores and channels of the harbour as lie within the limits of the harbour and may use, appropriate or dispose of the materials (other than wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act), from time to time dredged by them.\n(2) No such materials shall be laid down or deposited—\n(a) in contravention of the provisions of any enactment as respects the disposal of waste, or\n(b) in any place below the level of high water otherwise than in such a position and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in force at 1.3.2019, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/76/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:43.968342+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."
}