{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wells-harbour-revision-order-1994/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wells-harbour-revision-order-1994/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1440",
  "legislation_title": "The Wells Harbour Revision Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wells-harbour-revision-order-1994",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Power to dredge",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order and for the purposes of improving and maintaining the harbour the Commissioners may deepen, widen, dredge, scour and improve the bed and foreshore of the harbour and of the approaches to the harbour and may blast any rock within the harbour or in such approaches.\n(2) Any materials (other than a wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894) taken up or collected in the course of the operations referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be the property of the Commissioners and may be used, sold, removed, deposited or otherwise disposed of as the Commissioners may think fit.\n(3) The powers of the Commissioners under this article shall be exercisable subject to the provisions of article 38 (Crown Rights) of this Order and in particular and without prejudice to that general limitation, any consent given to the exercise of such powers by the Crown Estate Commissioners on behalf of Her Majesty may be given subject to such restrictions and conditions, including the payment by the Commissioners to the Crown Estate Commissioners of royalties, rents or sums of money in respect of materials raised from any place below the level of high water and sold by the Commissioners under this article or in respect of any place below the level of high water upon which materials may be deposited as may be fixed by the Crown Estate Commissioners.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1440/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:32:24.519793+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."
}