Power to construct works

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Authority may in the lines and situations and upon the lands delineated on the deposited plans and within the limits of deviation shown on them and according to the levels shown on the deposited sections, construct and maintain in Aberdeenshire the following works, with all necessary works and conveniences connected with them–

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Authority may, for the purposes of the works authorised by paragraph (1), demolish and remove any structures or apparatus lying within the limits of deviation and enclose and reclaim so much of the bed of the port and of the foreshore as lies within the limits of deviation and may hold and use the same as part of the undertaking of the Authority; and so much of the bed of the port and of the foreshore as may be reclaimed shall be deemed to be operational land within the meaning of section 215 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997(1).

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Authority may, within the limits of deviation, reconstruct, extend, enlarge, replace or relay the works authorised by paragraph (1) and may maintain the same as reconstructed, extended, enlarged, replaced or relaid.