London Docklands Development Corporation Act 1994

Section 9.

SCHEDULE 3 Purposes for which byelaws may be made

1 For regulating the conduct of all persons in the designated areas, not being members of a police force or officers of the fire authority or officers or servants of the Crown or officers of the port authority whilst in the exercise of their duties as such.

2 For regulating the use of buildings, parking places and facilities provided by the Corporation.

3 To promote the safety of persons in the designated areas.

4 For preventing damage or injury to or interference with any part of the designated areas or any property within the designated areas.

5 For prevention of nuisances in the designated areas.

6 For prohibiting the buying or selling of goods or the carrying on of any other trading activity in the designated areas, either absolutely or except with the consent of the Corporation and in accordance with any conditions (including conditions as to payment) subject to which such consent is given.

7 For regulating the movement, use, speed and parking of vehicles within the designated areas.

8 For regulating the landing and taking off of helicopters within the designated areas.

9 For regulating the entry onto the waterside of horses, ponies, asses or mules and the riding thereon of such animals.

10 For requiring dogs to be under proper control on the waterside or on the jetties, and for the prevention of fouling of those areas by dogs.

11 For the protection of flora and fauna within the designated areas.

12 For prohibiting or regulating the placing of materials or the depositing of litter, rubbish or other substances in the designated areas and making provision for the removal from the designated areas of objects and substances left without lawful authority or abandoned.

13 For the control of noise in the designated areas.

14 For regulating the playing of games in the designated areas.

15 For regulating firework displays or the lighting of fireworks in the designated areas.

16 For regulating the holding of exhibitions, festivals, concerts, displays, regattas and other public events in the designated areas.

17 For regulating cycling, roller-skating, ice skating, or the use of bicycles, tricycles, scooters, toboggans, pedal cars, soap box carts or any other similar conveyances or devices on the waterside.

18 For regulating water skiing, rowing, canoeing, sailing, aqua-planing, wet-biking, windsurfing, kiting or parachute towing or other similar activities in the designated areas and for securing the protection of persons taking part in such activities.

19 For prohibiting or regulating diving, swimming and bathing, and for securing the protection of divers, swimmers and bathers, within the waters of the designated areas.

20 For regulating fishing for marine creatures of any type and by whatever means within the designated areas.

21 To prescribe parts of the designated areas—

(a) where vessels or a specified class of vessels may not moor, anchor or be otherwise secured; or

(b) which vessels of a specified class may not enter.

22 For regulating the use within the designated areas of any class of vessels for business or residential purposes.

23 For requiring the registration of, or of any class of, pleasure-vessels, for the renewal of registration, for revocation of registration in specified circumstances and for prohibiting the use for navigation of the waters of the designated areas by pleasure-vessels which are not registered with the Corporation.

24 For regulating the removal or disposal of rubbish (including ballast, earth or clay or other refuse) and sewage from vessels in the designated areas.

25 For regulating within the designated areas the placing, laying down, maintenance and use of moorings and in particular for prohibiting the placing, laying down, maintaining or using of any mooring otherwise than under the authority of a licence granted by the Corporation in accordance with the conditions subject to which it is so granted.

26 For controlling, preventing and removing obstructions or impediments within the designated areas.

27 For regulating the use in the designated areas of flammable or dangerous substances or of fires, lights or any other equipment, tools or appliances which the Corporation considers involves a risk of fire and for the prevention of smoking.

28 For requiring the masters of vessels within the designated areas to take fire precautions and measures to combat fires on or in respect of their vessels.

29 To prevent the taking of vessels in the designated areas by unauthorised persons.

30 For regulating the carrying out of repairs to vessels in the designated areas, the breaking of or other works on or in respect of vessels in the designated areas or the washing, cleansing or scraping of vessels within the designated areas.

31 For regulating vessels in the designated areas and their entry into and departure from the designated areas and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to prescribe rules for regulating the notice to be given to the manager of the arrival at, departure from, or movement within the designated areas of vessels, the speed and manner of navigation and the lights and signals (including sound signals) to be exhibited or made by, or for the benefit of, vessels using, navigating or mooring within the designated areas.

32 For requiring notification of, and details of, collisions, accidents and other mishaps involving vessels or vehicles within the designated areas to be given to the manager.

33 For prescribing safety precautions to be taken within the designated areas during the fuelling of vessels.

34 For requiring the display on vessels within the designated areas of the name or other means of identification thereof.

35 For prohibiting the abandonment of vessels in the designated areas and in particular—

(a) for prescribing the circumstances in which vessels shall be deemed to be abandoned;

(b) for making provision for the removal of vessels sunk, stranded or abandoned in the designated areas without lawful authority;

(c) for providing for the recovery of expenses from the owner.

36 For requiring the placing and maintenance of buoys or other devices giving warning of the presence of obstructions within the designated areas.