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5.—(1) The Company may deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the River Severn to the extent described in Schedule 3 (dredging works) or as may be required for the purpose of maintaining the works described in that Schedule to enable uninterrupted means of access to the works by vessels and enabling the use of the works at all states of the tide.
(2) The power to dredge described in Schedule 3 includes the power to carry out such additional dredging as may be required to provide side slopes or otherwise secure the dredged areas against siltation, scouring or collapse.
(3) Any materials dredged, taken or collected by the Company in the exercise of the powers of this article (other than wreck within the meaning of Part 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1)) shall be the property of the Company and may be used, sold, deposited or otherwise disposed of as the Company thinks fit.
(4) No materials referred to in this article shall—
(a)be disposed of in contravention of the provisions of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste; or
(b)be deposited below the level of high water except within the designated harbour for the purposes of constructing the works or otherwise in such places and in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State pursuant to Part 2 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(2).
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