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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/section/2</dc:identifier><dc:title>Dangerous Vessels Act 1985</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to empower harbour masters to give directions to prohibit vessels from entering the areas of jurisdiction of their respective harbour authorities or to require the removal of vessels from those areas where those vessels present a grave and imminent danger to the safety of any person or property, or risk of obstruction to navigation; to enable the Secretary of State to give further directions countermanding those first-mentioned directions; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:date>1985-05-23</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2015-09-10</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2015-03-12</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/22/body" NumberOfProvisions="9" RestrictStartDate="2015-03-12"><P1group RestrictExtent="E+W+S" RestrictStartDate="1996-01-01"><Title> Application of Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1900.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/section/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/22/section/2" id="section-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Where—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/section/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/22/section/2/a" id="section-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>a harbour authority is liable for any loss or damage occurring outside the harbour of that authority in consequence of directions given by a harbour master in purported exercise of his powers under section 1 above; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/22/section/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/22/section/2/b" id="section-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the provisions of the <Addition ChangeId="d30p140" CommentaryRef="c1002108">section 191 of the </Addition><CommentaryRef Ref="c1002109"/><Addition ChangeId="d30p140" CommentaryRef="c1002108">Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (which limits the liability of harbour, conservancy, dock and canal authorities)</Addition> would apply so as to limit that liability if the loss or damage in question had occurred in that harbour;</Text></P3para></P3><Text>then, for the purposes of that Act, that loss or damage shall be deemed to have occurred in that harbour.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c1002108" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in s.2(b) substituted (1.1.1996) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/21" id="c00002" Year="1995" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1995 c.21</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00003" CitationRef="c00002" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/21/section/314/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-314-2">ss.314(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00004" CitationRef="c00002" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/21/section/316/2" SectionRef="section-316-2">316(2)</CitationSubRef>, SCh.13 para.74 (with s.312(1))</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c1002109" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/21" id="c00005" Year="1995" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1995 c.21</Citation></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>