The Swansea (Closure of the Prince of Wales Dock) Harbour Revision Order 2022

PART 2 CLOSURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES DOCK

Closure of the Prince of Wales Dock

3.—(1) AB Ports may on a day within 42 days beginning with the coming into force of this Order close the Prince of Wales Dock.

(2) Upon the closure of the Prince of Wales Dock under paragraph (1)—

(a) the Prince of Wales Dock ceases to form part of the Port of Swansea;

(b) all duties and obligations imposed on AB Ports under the Swansea Harbour Acts 1874 – 1901 with respect to or in connection with the Prince of Wales Dock are to cease;

(c) any and all rights of navigation within the Prince of Wales Dock are extinguished;

(d) any and all duties or obligations to maintain a navigable channel to the Prince of Wales Dock within the area shown hatched blue on the Prince of Wales Dock plan or to maintain a swing bridge across that area are extinguished.

(3) Before exercising the power conferred on it by paragraph (1) AB Ports must—

(a) publish a notice of its intention to close the Prince of Wales Dock in Lloyd’s List and once in each of two successive weeks in a local newspaper published or circulating in Swansea with an interval between the dates of publication of not less than six working days;

(b) display a copy of one of the notices referred to in paragraph 3(a) in a conspicuous position in the vicinity of the Port of Swansea;

(c) give notice of its intention in writing to close the Prince of Wales Dock to the Welsh Ministers.

(4) The notices referred to in paragraph 3(a) must—

(a) state that AB Ports intends to close the Prince of Wales Dock to vessels and the date from which the Prince of Wales Dock is to close to vessels;

(b) specify a date, which is a date not earlier than one month after the date of the latest of the three notices in paragraph (3)(a) by which all vessels must be removed from the Prince of Wales Dock.

Application of the Swansea Harbour Acts 1874 – 1901

4.—(1) Upon the closure of the Prince of Wales Dock in accordance with article 3, the Swansea Harbour Acts 1874 – 1901, including any agreement scheduled to any of those Acts cease to apply to the Prince of Wales Dock.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to—

(a) section 6 (power to divert water into the docks) of the 1874 Act;

(b) section 7 (power to divert water into the docks) of the 1894 Act;

(c) section 7 (power to take and divert water) of the 1901 Act.

Removal of vessels from the Prince of Wales Dock

5.—(1) If the master of any vessel which is within the Prince of Wales Dock does not remove the vessel before the date specified in accordance with article 3(4)(b), the dock master may cause that vessel to be removed from the Prince of Wales Dock and moored or laid in any other place where it may without injury be moored or laid.

(2) AB Ports may recover as a debt from the master of any vessel removed under paragraph (1) all reasonable expenses incurred by it in respect of its removal.

As to vessels entering the Prince of Wales Dock

6.  If any vessel enters the Prince of Wales Dock after the date specified in article 3(4)(b) of this Order, the dock master may direct the master of the vessel to remove the vessel from the Prince of Wales Dock, and if the master of the vessel does not comply without undue delay with such directions article 5 applies to the vessel as if the vessel had been within the Prince of Wales Dock before that date.