Enforcement powers Section 13: Provision of information by harbour authorities
Section 13 provides a power for the Secretary of State to give a notice to a harbour authority requiring it to provide information, in the manner and within the period specified in the notice, for the purpose of establishing whether, or to what extent, the authority is complying with its duties under the Act.
	This may in particular include information about:
the services provided by ships that use the harbour,
equivalence declarations requested by, or provided to, the harbour authority,
surcharges imposed or received by the harbour authority, and
decisions by the harbour authority to refuse or not refuse access to its harbour.
	There is an exception whereby operators are not required to provide information under this section to the extent that doing so would cause the operator to breach domestic data protection legislation.
	A notice may require the information to be provided in a manner, and within a period, specified in the notice.
	It is an offence for an operator to fail to provide information required in the manner and within the period specified, to provide information that is false or misleading, or to provide information that becomes false or misleading and fail to inform the Secretary of State within four weeks. This offence is punishable on summary conviction by a fine in England and Wales, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale in Scotland and Northern Ireland.