Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2675

COAST PROTECTION

The Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) Regulations 1997

Made

7th November 1997

Laid before Parliament

10th November 1997

Coming into force

12th December 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 113 of Schedule 4 to the Coast Protection Act 1949(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These regulations may be cited as the Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 12th December 1997.

2. For paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Coast Protection Act 1949 (which, for the purposes of Part I of the Act excludes from the definitions of “sea” and “seashore” the River Esk (Yorkshire) above a line drawn from the seaward end of the West Pier to the seaward end of the East Pier at Whitby) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“9. The River Esk (Yorkshire) above a line drawn from the southern edge of Tate Hill Pier to the southern edge of Scotch Head at Whitby.”.

Elliot Morley

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

7th November 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Schedule 4 to the Coast Protection Act 1949 specifies waters which, for the purposes of Part I of the Act (coast protection), are not included in the expressions “sea” and “seashore”.

These Regulations vary Schedule 4 so as to extend the part of the River Esk (Yorkshire) which is included in those expressions.

(1)

1949 c. 74: the definition of “minister” is in section 49(1).

(2)

The powers originally vested in the Minister of Health are now vested in the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by virtue of S.I. 1951/142, 1951/1900, 1970/1681 and 1985/442.