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Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993
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(1)The Development Corporation shall ensure that a lock is available for use and that sluices are operational before navigation of the rivers Taff and Ely is totally obstructed by the construction of the barrage.
(2)Unless the National Rivers Authority otherwise agree, the barrage shall be so constructed that it is practicable between one high tide and the next to reduce the level of water immediately behind it to a level of one and a quarter metres below ordnance datum (Newlyn).
(3)The Development Corporation shall construct any bridge forming part of the barrage so that it has on each side of it a fence which is adequate for securing the safety of any pedestrians or other traffic using the bridge.
(4)The power conferred by section 1(5) above may in particular be exercised so as—
(a)to facilitate use of the inland bay and the outer harbour by pleasure craft or other vessels or for water sports or other open-air recreational activities, or
(b)to develop or conserve flora or fauna.
(5)In executing any of the works authorised by section 1 above the Development Corporation shall have regard to the desirability of developing and conserving flora and fauna.
(6)The Development Corporation shall consult the [F1Natural Resources Body for Wales] and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to seek their views as to—
(a)whether any works which the Development Corporation propose to execute so as to develop or conserve flora or fauna are appropriate for that purpose, and
(b)the measures which may be taken so as to develop and conserve flora and fauna in executing any of the other works authorised by section 1 above.
(7)Schedule 2 to this Act, which contains supplementary provisions about the works authorised by section 1 above, shall have effect; and subsections (1), (2) and (5) of that section shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section and that Schedule.
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F1Words in s. 2(6) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 347 (with Sch. 7)
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