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11 Any person who– a intentionally obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Company in setting…

article 19(11) of The Whiteness Marina Harbour Revision Order 2008

The provision has been revoked and no saving provision preserving liability for earlier conduct was found.

What the provision says

11 Any person who–

a intentionally obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Company in setting out moorings; or

b intentionally and without lawful authority pulls up or removes any mooring in the marina or any part thereof; or

c without reasonable excuse causes or permits

a vessel to be moored in the marina except at

a mooring provided or licensed by the Company under this article or at

a quay, jetty, slipway or other work or to land owned or leased by the Company; or

d places, lays down or maintains in the marina any mooring not provided or licensed by the Company under this article; shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to

a fine not exceeding level

3 on the standard scale.

Text as made, from legislation.gov.uk. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.

Who it binds, and what has to be proved

Binds
a person
Conduct
obstructing an official exercising a power
Fault element
Requires proof of a state of mind
Burden of proof
An element of the offence, for the prosecution to prove

The prosecution must prove both that the conduct happened and that it was done with the state of mind the provision names (intentionally).

“Without reasonable excuse” here is an element of the offence rather than a defence, so its absence is for the prosecution to prove (R v Charles [2009] EWCA Crim 1570).

Classifier’s reasoning: mens rea word in the offence-creating words: intentionally; qualified by reasonable excuse (an element; prosecution disproves once raised).

The defence, as drafted

removes any mooring in the marina or any part thereof; or c without reasonable excuse causes or permits a vessel to be moored in the marina except at a mooring provided or licensed by the Company under this article or at a quay, jetty, slipway or other work or to land owned or leased by the Company; or d places, lays down or maintains in the m

What would breach article 19(11)?

These are illustrations, not law. They are generated from the provision’s own words to show the shape of the offence. Whether any particular conduct is caught depends on the full text, on any amendment since, and on the facts.

  1. Refusing to let an inspector onto premises they are entitled to enter under the Whiteness Marina Harbour Revision Order 2008.
  2. Sending an official away, or telling staff to say nothing, where the power being exercised does not depend on anyone's consent.
  3. Physically blocking an examination, or removing something an officer has said they intend to inspect.

Penalty

Mode of trial
Summary only — tried in a magistrates’ court
Maximum fine
£1,000
Standard scale
Level 3
Maximum prison (summary)
Not determined

in Scotland a reference to a level is construed as referring to the standard scale as it currently stands (CP(S)A 1995 s.225(2)), not as it stood when the instrument was made.

Sentencing

Offences of this kind are usually sentenced under the guidelines below. This is a mapping by subject, not a finding about this provision, and the links go to a search of the Sentencing Council’s own site.

Prosecution figures

No published per-offence figure was found for this provision, and it could not be matched to a Ministry of Justice offence code. Offences created by statutory instrument very largely do not have one. Absence of a figure is not evidence that the offence is unused.

Status and lifecycle

Current status
Revoked
Revoked by
The Port of Ardersier Harbour Revision Order 2014
Revoked on
19 August 2014
Made
6 November 2008
In force from
7 November 2008
Extent
Not stated

How this was established: the instrument was revoked by a later instrument found in this corpus.

What the instrument is for

(This note is not part of the Order) — the explanatory note published with the instrument, © Crown copyright.

This Order repeals the McDermott Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1975 and empowers Whiteness Marina Company Limited to construct and maintain a marina and other facilities at Whiteness Head in the area of the Carse of Ardersier in the Highland Area, Inverness District. The Order also confers powers on Whiteness Marina Company Limited to maintain and operate their undertaking at Whiteness Head as a statutory harbour undertaking and defines the limits of jurisdiction of the Marina.

Read the full note and every offence in this instrument

Other offences in the same instrument

How this was identified as an offence

Everything above rests on the judgement that this provision creates a criminal offence, rather than mentioning one. That judgement is made by rule, from the words of the provision, and this is the rule that made it — with a confidence of 0.92.

Basis
the provision says a person is “guilty of an offence”
Confidence
0.92 of 1.00

A provision that states a penalty for an offence created elsewhere can read very like one that creates an offence, and the rules can mistake the one for the other. If the text quoted above sets a penalty for something made an offence by another provision, treat the classification on this page with that in mind, and read the instrument.

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