PART 2WORKS

Power to construct works

3.—(1) The Commissioners 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 or deposited elevations, construct and maintain the following works—

(2) The Commissioners 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 harbour 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 Commissioners; and so much of the bed of the harbour 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) The Commissioners may, within the limits of deviation, reconstruct, extend, enlarge, replace, relay or otherwise alter temporarily or permanently the works authorised by paragraph (1) and may maintain the same as reconstructed, extended, enlarged, replaced or relaid.