PART IPRELIMINARY

Harbour jurisdiction

3.—(1) The area within which the Comhairle shall exercise jurisdiction as a harbour authority within the meaning of section 57 of the Harbours Act 1964, and within which the powers of the harbour master may be exercised, shall be the area described in Schedule 1 to this Order and shown edged in red on the harbour map together with so much of the harbour premises as is not situated within that area.

(2) In the event of any discrepancy between the boundaries of the harbour as described in paragraph (1), and in Schedule 1 to this Order, and the boundaries shown on the harbour map, the harbour map shall prevail.

(3) All enactments conferring rights, powers, privileges or immunities or imposing duties, obligations or liabilities upon the Comhairle or the harbourmaster, and all byelaws, regulations and directions made by the Comhairle which immediately before the date of the coming into force of this Order related to or had effect within the harbour, as it existed immediately before that date, shall relate to or have effect throughout the harbour as described in paragraph (1), and in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(4) In section 2 of the 1980 Order, for the definition of “the harbour”, there shall be substituted–

“the harbour” means the area described in article 3(1) of, and in Schedule 1 to, the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Ardveenish) Harbour Revision Order 2000.

(5) Section 16 (Limits of the harbour) of, and the Schedule to, the 1980 Order are hereby repealed.