Dover Harbour Act 1891
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1891 c. cxxv |
| Year | 1891 |
Dover Harbour Act, 1891. . [Ch.. CXXV,]
CHAPTER cxxv.
An Act to authorise the making of a Deep Water Harbour
at Dover in substitution for the Deep Water Harbour now
authorised to be made there and for other purposes.
;[21st July 1891.]
HEREAS the Dover Harbour Board (in this Act referred to
as " the Harbour Board ") are constituted incorporated and
empowered for the purpose of maintaining and improving Dover
Harbour by the Harbours and Passing Tolls &c. Act 1861 in con-
junction with the Dover Harbour Act 1828 the Dover Harbour Act
1871 and the Dover Harbour Act 1873 (which four Acts are in this
Act collectively referred to as " the former Harbour Acts ") :
And whereas by the Dover Harbour Act 1882 the Harbour Board
were authorised to make certain piers and works for the purpose
of making a deep water harbour at Dover to form part of Dover
Harbour within the meaning of the former Harbour Acts :
And whereas such piers and works would have necessitated a verv
large expenditure and have not been commenced and it would be of
great local and public advantage if the Harbour Board were autho-
rised to abandon the making thereof and to make in substitution
therefor and at less cost the piers and works herein-after described
for the purposes of making a deep water harbour to form part of
Dover Harbour within the meaning of the former Harbour Acts
and this Act and for the purpose of reclaiming land as herein-after
mentioned and it is expedient that provision be made accordingly :
And whereas it is expedient that the Harbour Board be authorised
to raise the money which they may borrow by the creation and issue
of debenture stock : , ;
And whereas it is expedient that the Harbour Board be empowered
to enter into agreements with Her Majesty's Government for the
transfer to the Harbour Board of the Admiralty Pier at Dover :
And whereas it is expedient that provision be made for preventing
the piers and works hereby contemplated from interfering with
[Price Is. Qd.] A 1.
[54 & 55 VICT.]
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[Oil. cxxv.] Dover Harbour Act, 1891. [54 & 55 VICT.]
A.D. 1891.
Short title.
Repeal.
Incorpora-
tion of Acts.
Interpreta-
tion.
injuring or prejudicing the present or any future Government works
at Dover or the public service carried on thereat:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the piers and works authorised by'this Act and also books of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required or which may
be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act were duly
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the "county of Kent and are
herein-after respectively referred to as. the deposited plans sections
and books of reference :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that .it may be enacted and
be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and with
the advice and consent of the. Lo.rds Spiritual and Temporal and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same as follows :—
1.
This Act may be cited as the Dover Harbour Act 1891.
2.
The Dover Harbour Act 1882 is hereby repealed.
3.
(1) The provisions of—
The Lands Clauses Acts (except the provisions thereof with respect
to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agree-
ment and with respect to the entry upon lands by the promoters
of the undertaking); and
The Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 with respect to
the construction of the harbour dock or pier (except sections 6
and 8 to 10) with respect to the construction of works for the
accommodation of the officers of Customs with respect to life-
boats with respect to the construction of warehouses wharfs and
other conveniences with respect to the collection and recovery of
rates (except sections 34 to 36) and sections 29 50 52 to 54 82
to 84 99 and 100 of that Act;
are (except where expressly varied by this Act) incorporated with
and form part of this Act:
(2) Provided that the provisions of the Harbours Docks and
Piers Clauses Act 1847 with respect to lifeboats shall not be in
force unless and until the Board of Trade under the hand of a
secretary or an assistant secretary to that Board so require and that
no byelaw made by the Harbour Board shall be in force until
confirmed by the Board of Trade.
4.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires " high-water
mark " means high-water mark at ordinary spring tides and words
and expressions to which meanings are assigned by any Act wholly
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