The Lerwick Harbour Revision Order 2015

PART I PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Lerwick Harbour Revision Order 2015 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it was made.

(2) This Order and the Lerwick Harbour Acts and Orders 1877 to 2010 may be cited together as the Lerwick Harbour Acts and Orders 1877 to 2014 (hereinafter referred to as “the Harbour Acts and Orders”).

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the Authority” means Lerwick Port Authority;

“deposited plans and sections” means the plans and sections which are bound together and signed in duplicate with reference to this Order and marked the “Lerwick Harbour Revision Order 2014 plans and sections” and which are deposited at the offices of the Scottish Ministers at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ, and at the offices of the Authority situated at Albert Building, Esplanade, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0LL; and a reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to that numbered sheet bound in the deposited plans and sections;

“enactment” includes an Act of the Scottish Parliament and an instrument made under such an Act;

“government department” includes any part of, or any member of the staff of, the Scottish Administration which shall have the same meaning as in section 126(6) of the Scotland Act 1998(1);

“harbour” means the Port and Harbour of Lerwick as defined by the Harbour Acts and Orders and, in particular, the Lerwick Harbour Order Confirmation Act 1994(2) and shall include the works authorised by this Order;

“levels of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;

“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and sections;

“tidal work” means so much of any works authorised by this Order as is on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands below the level of high water; and

“works” means the works authorised by this Order or, as the case may require, any part of the works authorised by this Order.

(2) All areas, dimensions, directions, distances, lengths, points, widths, heights and other measurements stated in any plan or description of the works, powers or lands, other than article 5 (power to deviate), shall be construed as if the words “or thereby” were inserted after each such area, dimension, direction, distance, length, point, width, height and other measurement.

(3) Reference points specified in this Order shall be construed as references to Ordnance Survey National Grid Map reference points.

(1)

1998 c.46.

(2)

1994 c.x.