The Port of Tyne (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1989

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Port of Tyne (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1989.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Authority” means the Port of Tyne Authority;

“the Port” has the same meaning as in the Port of Tyne Reorganisation Scheme 1967(1);

“signed plan” means the plan signed in triplicate by an Under Secretary in the Department of Transport, two copies of which have been deposited at that Department and one copy of which has been deposited at the offices of the Authority situated in Bewick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5HS.

Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

3.  The limits within which the Authority shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of pilotage under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the Port) the area coloured pink on the signed plan, being so much of the area outside the Port as lies within a radius of three nautical miles from each of the roundheads of the North and South Piers in the Port and to the east of a line with the lighthouse on the South Pier roundhead bearing 179° true and to the north of a line with from the lighthouse on the South Pier roundhead bearing 288° true.

Paul Channon

Secretary of State for Transport

26th June 1989