The Loch Ryan Port (Harbour Empowerment) Order 2009

Special directions to vessels

23.—(1) The harbour master may give a direction under this article—

(a) requiring any vessel anywhere within the port or the approaches to the port to comply with a requirement made in or under a general direction;

(b) regulating the time at which and the manner in which any vessel shall enter into, go out of, or lie in or at the port;

(c) for securing that vessels move only at certain times or during certain periods;

(d) prohibiting the mooring of vessels in any particular part or parts of the port;

(e) regulating or requiring the movement, mooring or unmooring of a vessel; and

(f) regulating the manner in which a vessel takes in or discharges (from ship to shore or shore to ship) passengers, cargo, fuel, water, ship’s stores or ballast in the port.

(2) A special direction may be given in any manner considered by the harbour master to be appropriate.

(3) The harbour master may revoke or amend a special direction.