The Fishguard (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1494

HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES

The Fishguard (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Made

18th August 1988

Coming into force

1st October 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on application of the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company in accordance with section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 1987(3), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Fishguard (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“The Authority” means the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company.

“The Port” means the Port of Fishguard as described in section 3 of the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Act 1899(4).

“Signed Plan” means the plan signed in triplicate by an Under Secretary in the Department of Transport, two copies of which have been deposited at that Department and one copy of which has been deposited at the offices of the Authority situated at Fishguard Harbour, Goodwick, Dyfed SA64 0BU.

Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

3.  The limits within which the Authority shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of pilotage under Part 1 of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the port), the area outlined in red on the signed plan, being so much of the waters of Fishguard Bay below high water mark as is comprised within an imaginary line drawn in a 090° direction from the Northern extremity of Pen Anglas (Latitude 52° 1'.542, Longitude 04° 59'.450) to Longitude 04° 56'.975 and then in a Southerly direction 180° to Needle Rock.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J. W. S. Dempster

An Under Secretary in the

Department of Transport

18th August 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

By virtue of section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 1987 a direction given by a harbour authority for the purposes of making pilotage compulsory for ships navigating in a specified area shall not apply to any area which is outside the Authority’s harbour unless the limits of jurisdiction of the authority for Pilotage have been extended to cover that area.

This Order accordingly extends the limits of jurisdiction of the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company for pilotage purposes under Part 1 of the Pilotage Act 1987 so as to include an area outside the Port of Fishguard in respect of which the Authority considers that pilotage should be compulsory.

The applicant for this Order is the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company.

(1)

1964 c. 40; section 14 and Schedule 3 were amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56), section 18 and Schedule 6 paragraphs 2 to 4.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.

(3)

1987 c. 21.

(4)

1899 c. clxxxvi.