The Portland Harbour Revision Order 2010

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Portland Harbour Revision Order 2010 and shall come into force on 19th March 2010

(2) The Portland Harbour Revision Order 1997(1) and this Order may be cited as the Portland Harbour Orders 1997 to 2010.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1997 Order” means The Portland Harbour Revision Order 1997(2);

“authorised works” means the works authorised by this Order, or any part of such works;

“berthing faces” means any quay, wall or pontoon alongside of which vessels berth;

“Chart Datum” in relation to any depth of dredging is 0.93 metres below Ordnance Datum (Newlyn);

“the Company” means Portland Harbour Authority Limited (previously called Portland Port Limited);

“the controlled area” shall have the meaning given to it in the 1997 Order;

“the deposited plans” and “the deposited sections” mean respectively the plans and sections (numbered sheets HRO1 to HRO9) prepared in duplicate, signed by the Head of Ports Division in the Department for Transport and marked “Plans and sections The Portland Harbour Revision Order 2010” of which one copy has been deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport and the other at the principal office of the Company at Portland Port, Castletown, Portland, Dorset DT5 1PP;

“the harbour” means Portland Harbour;

“harbour premises” shall, subject to paragraph (5) below, have the meaning given to it in the 1997 Order;

“harbour undertaking” means the undertaking of the Company authorised by the 1997 Order;

“level of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;

“level of low water” means the level of mean low-water springs;

“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans;

“tidal work” means so much of any work as is on, under or over tidal waters or over tidal land below the level of high water; and

“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

(2) All situations, points, directions, distances, lengths, dimensions, areas and other measurements stated in this Order (other than the limits of deviation) shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such situation, point, direction, distance, length, dimension, area or other measurement.

(3) In this Order, references to named, numbered or lettered breakwaters, heads of breakwaters, beacons, buildings, channels, coves, creeks, lights, piers and slipways, or other points, places, structures and apparatus are references to those so named, numbered or lettered on the Admiralty Charts.

(4) In this Order—

(a) any reference to a work identified by the number of such work shall be construed as a reference to the work of that number authorised by this Order; and

(b) map reference points specified shall be construed as references to Ordnance Survey National Grid reference points.

(5) References in the 1997 Order to the harbour undertaking of the Company and to the harbour premises shall in each case be construed for all purposes as including references to any works carried on and any lands reclaimed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under or by virtue of this Order.

(1)

S.I. 1997/2949.

(2)

S.I. 1997/2949. For the limits of Portland Harbour, see article 2.