1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Scrabster (Deep Inner Berth) Harbour Revision Order 2011 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) The Scrabster Harbour Acts and Orders 1841 to 2005 and this Order may be cited together as the Scrabster Harbour Acts and Orders 1841 to 2011.
2.—(1) In this Order—
“1841 Act” means the Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled “An Act for making and maintaining a Harbour at Scrabster Roads in the Bay of Thurso and County of Caithness, and Road thereto”(1);
“deposited plans and sections” means the plans and sections prepared in duplicate and signed by a member of the Scottish Executive and marked “Plans and sections referred to in the Scrabster (Deep Inner Berth) Harbour Revision Order 2011” of which one is deposited with Scottish Ministers at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ and the other at the harbour office of the Trust;
“harbour” means the harbour of Scrabster as authorised by the 1841 Act, the Scrabster Harbour Order 1897(2) and the Scrabster Harbour Order 1989(3) or any part of it as the case may be;
“level of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;
“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and sections;
“tidal work” means so much of any work authorised by this Order as is on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands below the level of high water;
“the Trust” means the Scrabster Harbour Trust (4);
“works” means the works authorised by articles 3 (power to carry out quay work) and 4 (power to carry out dredging and demolition works) or, as the case may require, any part of them.
(2) All areas, directions and distances as stated in any description of works, powers or lands other than article 5 (power to deviate) of this Order shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such area, direction and distance.
(3) Any reference in a description of works to a point shall be a reference to that point on the deposited plan.
(4) All references to point locations in this Order are given as National Grid references.
(5) Any reference in this Order to a work identified by the number of such work, shall be construed as a reference to the work of the same number authorised by this Order.
The Scrabster Harbour Trust was constituted and incorporated by the 1841 Act under the name The Trustees of the Harbour of Scrabster and was renamed Scrabster Harbour Trust by article 3 of The Scrabster Harbour Revision Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1201).