The Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order 2005

Reserved and Recreational Areas

14.  The Secretary of State or the Queen’s Harbour Master may, where he considers it necessary to reserve any area for mining, gunnery or dredging operations or experiments, or other naval purposes, or to ensure the safe navigation of vessels both naval and civilian, direct by notice published as a general or local notice to mariners, which shall continue in force until 31st December of the year in which it was issued, unless revoked earlier, that no person shall—

(a) cause or permit a vessel to enter into or remain in that area, unless compelled to do so by stress of weather or to avoid accident;

(b) enter into or remain in that area, or cause or permit any vessel, animal or thing to enter into or remain in that area, except with the permission of the Queen’s Harbour Master or the officer in charge of such operations, experiments or purposes; or

(c) take part in any recreational activities specified in the notice in such parts of that area as may be so specified, save for the purposes of avoiding danger or accident.