The Port of Lowestoft (Transfer of Mutford Lock) Harbour Revision Order 2021

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Port of Lowestoft (Transfer of Mutford Lock) Harbour Revision Order 2021 and shall come into force on 19th February 2021.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1975 Order” means the Oulton Broad Revision Order 1975(1);

“the Act of 1827” means the Act entitled “An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Communication for ships and other vessels between the City of Norwich and the Sea at or near Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk”(2);

“the Act of 1988” means the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988(3);

“A.B. Ports” means Associated British Ports;

“the adjoining land” means the land adjoining Mutford Lock which is described in the Schedule to this Order;

“the Authority” means the Broads Authority established by section 1 of the Act of 1988;

“the day of transfer” means the date this Order comes into force;

“Mutford Lock” means the lock which is described in the Schedule to this Order;

“the signed plan” means the plan prepared in duplicate, signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Marine Management Organisation and marked “Signed plan referred to in the Port of Lowestoft (Transfer of Mutford Lock) Harbour Revision Order 2021”, one copy of which is deposited at the offices of the Marine Management Organisation and the other at the principal office of A.B. Ports and available on the A.B. Ports website(4); and

“the yellow land” means that part of Mutford Lock coloured yellow on the signed plan.

(2) In this Order a reference to the undertaking of A.B. Ports in respect of Mutford Lock is a reference to the powers, duties, obligations, responsibilities, property, rights and liabilities of A.B. Ports in relation to that lock which exist immediately before the day of transfer.

(1)

S.I. 1975/2206; as amended by the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads (Staff and Property etc) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/277), paragraph 4 of Schedule 3.

(2)

1827 7 & 8 Geo. 4 c. xlii.

(3)

1988 c. 4.

(4)

25 Bedford Street London WC2E 9ES. The A.B. Ports website can be found at:

https://www.abports.co.uk/media/zazig0dx/hro-transfer-of-mutford-lock-plan.pdf..