Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993

Supplementary E+W+S+N.I.

32 Financial provision. E+W+S+N.I.

(1) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament the increases attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of such money under any other enactment.

(2) Any amounts recovered by the Secretary of State from the Development Corporation under this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

33 Interpretation. E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

• “the barrage” means the barrage the construction of which is Work No. 1,

• “the book of reference” means the book deposited in November 1991 in connection with the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons,

• “the deposited plans” and “the deposited sections” mean respectively the plans and sections deposited in November 1991 in connection with the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons,

• “the Development Corporation” means the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation,

• “exercise” includes perform and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly,

• “functions” includes powers, duties and obligations,

• “the inland bay” has the meaning given by section 1(6),

• “the limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation which are shown on the deposited plans,

• “maintenance” includes repair and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly,

• “the outer harbour” means the harbour the construction of which is Work No. 3 and (except in Part I) includes the area bounded by the barrage, the breakwaters or other immovable structures of the outer harbour and an imaginary straight line drawn between the breakwaters or other structures which is the shortest such line which can be so drawn,

• “owner”, in relation to any land, means a person (other than a mortgagee not in possession) who—

  (a)

  is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the land (whether in possession or in reversion), or

  (b)

  holds, or is entitled to the rents and profits of, the land under a lease or agreement,

  and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly,

• “the promenade” means the promenade the construction of which is Work No. 2,

• “street” has the same meaning as in Part III of the M1 New Roads and Street Works Act 1991,

• “tidal work” means so much of any work authorised by this Act as is on, over or under tidal waters or land below the level of mean high-water springs and “tidal structure” means so much of any structure erected under this Act as is on, over or under tidal waters or such land,

• “Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, and

• “vessel” means every description of vessel (whether with or without means of propulsion of any kind), and includes anything constructed or used to carry persons, goods or plant or machinery by water, or constructed to be propelled or moved on water, a seaplane on or in the water and a hovercraft (within the meaning of the M2 Hovercraft Act 1968).

(2) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) any reference to a work identified by a number is a reference to the work of that number described in Schedule 1 to this Act,

(b) any reference to a grid reference is to the map co-ordinates on the National Grid used by the Ordnance Survey and shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after it,

(c) any reference to operating the barrage shall be construed in accordance with section 7(1), and

(d) persons are statutory undertakers if they are for the purposes of Part XVI of the M3 Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and “statutory undertaking” shall be construed accordingly.

[F1 (3) References in this Act to the City of Cardiff and the Borough of the Vale of Glamorgan shall, subject to paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 7, be construed in relation to the exercise of any functions on or after 1st April 1996 as references to the County of Cardiff and the County Borough of the Vale of Glamorgan respectively.

(4) References in this Act to the Cardiff City Council and the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council shall be construed respectively as references to the new councils established for the areas of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.]

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 S. 33(3)(4) added (E.W.)(1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/525, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I para. 4(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 1991 c. 22.

M2 1968 c. 59.

M3 1980 c. 65.

34 Short title. E+W+S+N.I.

This Act may be cited as the Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993.