The Saundersfoot Harbour Empowerment Order 2011

General powers

23.—(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Order, the Commissioners may take such steps from time to time as they consider necessary or desirable for the maintenance, operation, management and improvement of the harbour and the accommodation and facilities (including navigation facilities) available in or in connection with the harbour.

(2) In particular, the Commissioners may—

(a) improve, maintain, regulate, manage, mark and light the harbour and any works in it;

(b) improve, alter and maintain any bunds, embankments, walls, roads (except public highways), footways, approaches, steps, landing places, piers, quays, jetties, slips, wharves, groynes, sea defences, berthing heads, mooring posts, mooring buoys, moorings, stagings, piles, booms, dolphins, bollards, mooring rings, fenders, walkways, buoys, navigation marks, cranes, lights, beacons, sewers, drains, watercourses, gas and water pipes, apparatus for electric light and power and for telecommunications, warehouses, offices, sheds and other works, buildings and facilities which they consider necessary to secure the purposes of this Order, including the accommodation or convenience of vessels, vehicles or other traffic or for the protection of the harbour;

(c) do any other thing (including the provision of facilities or the carrying on of any business) which, in their opinion, is in the interests of the proper carrying on or development of the harbour or can advantageously be undertaken by them by virtue of their activities in relation to the harbour; and

(d) make such other use as the Commissioners consider appropriate of any resources so far as they are not required for the purposes of the undertaking.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Commissioners may by agreement purchase and hold for the purposes of this Order any land in addition to that vested in the Commissioners under this Order.