The Port of Lowestoft (Transfer of Mutford Lock) Harbour Revision Order 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the transfer of Mutford Lock and adjoining land held with Mutford Lock from Associated British Ports to the Broads Authority together with related statutory powers or duties and removes Mutford Lock and the adjoining land from the area of jurisdiction of Associated British Ports as harbour authority for the Port of Lowestoft.

This Order provides for the area coloured blue and the adjoining land coloured red on the signed plan to be vested in the Broads Authority. Some areas of land remain in control of the Suffolk County Council as highway authority, these include the road, pedestrian and cyclist bridges and are coloured yellow on the signed plan.

The Broads Authority (Transfer of Mutford Lock) Harbour Revision Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/31) which is made at the same time as this Order provides for Mutford Lock and the adjoining land to form part of the area of jurisdiction of the Broads Authority as a harbour authority and to form part of the navigation area for the purposes of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988.

The signed plan referred to in Article 2 may be inspected during working hours at the principal office of A.B. Ports and on the A.B. Ports website:

https://www.abports.co.uk/media/zazig0dx/hro-transfer-of-mutford-lock-plan.pdf.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as there is no, or no significant, impact predicted on businesses, charities, voluntary bodies or the public sector.

An Explanatory Memorandum is available on the UK legislation website, www.legislation.gov.uk.