The Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order 2005

Anchoring and Mooring—General

6.  No vessel, or barge, hulk, raft, pontoon or other floating structure shall—

(a) make fast to, or lie at, any of the buoys or beacons placed by the Queen’s Harbour Master to mark channels or shoals in the Dockyard Port;

(b) be moored or fastened to any of Her Majesty’s naval moorings, buoys, breakwaters, boom defences, dolphins, jetties, piles or vessels in the Dockyard Port, save with the permission of the Queen’s Harbour Master;

(c) be moored or except in an emergency anchored within 100 metres of any of Her Majesty’s naval jetties, floating docks, dolphins, vessels, hulks, installations or armaments depots, or within 150 metres of the centre of any naval moorings, save with the permission of the Queen’s Harbour Master;

(d) lie or be moored so as to impede the free approach to any pier in the Dockyard Port used for the purposes of regular passenger traffic, or when buoys are placed by the Queen’s Harbour Master to mark an approach to such pier, lie within the space so marked;

(e) lie or be moored, anchored, grounded, deposited or run on shore in the fairways of the Harbour, the main navigable channels or the approach channel; or

(f) except in an emergency, drop anchor in water of greater than 10 metres in depth save with the permission of the Queen’s Harbour Master.