The Protection of Wrecks (Designation No. 1) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 2089

PROTECTION OF WRECKS

The Protection of Wrecks (Designation No. 1) Order 1989

Made

10th November 1989

Laid before Parliament

17th November 1989

Coming into force

8th December 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport, being satisfied that the sites identified in the Schedule to this Order are, or may prove to be, sites of vessels lying wrecked on or in the sea bed and that on account of the historical and archaeological importance of the vessels the sites ought to be protected from unauthorised interference, after consulting with the persons referred to in section 1(4) of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973(1), in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 3(2) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby orders as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Protection of Wrecks (Designation No. 1) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 8th December 1989.

2.—(1) The sites in respect of which this Order is made are those sites identified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order as sites where in each case a vessel lies, or is supposed to lie, wrecked on or in the sea bed.

(2) The areas identified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order shall be restricted areas for the purposes of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.

3.  The Protection of Wrecks (Designation No. 1) Order 1981(2) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

10th November 1989

SCHEDULE

Site
Restricted Area
1.  Latitude 51°15.45' North 1.Longitude 01°30.12' East
The area within a distance of 50 metres of Latitude 51°15.45' North, Longitude 01°30.12' East, but excluding any part of that area which lies above high water mark of ordinary spring tides.
2.  Latitude 51°15.60' North 1.Longitude 01°30.13' East
The area within a distance of 50 metres of Latitude 51°15.60' North, Longitude 01°30.13' East, but excluding any part of that area which lies above high water mark of ordinary spring tides.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates as restricted areas for the purposes of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 two areas in the Goodwin Sands round the sites of what are, or may prove to be, the wrecks of two vessels which are of historical and archaeological importance.

This Order corrects an error in the position of the centres of the sites of historic wrecks to which the Protection of Wrecks (Designation No.1) Order 1981 was intended to relate: that Order is accordingly revoked.

(1)

1973 c. 33.

(2)

S.I. 1981/827.