Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1988
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1988 c. xiv |
Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1988 1
ELIZABETH II
1988 CHAPTER xiv
An Act to empower the Felixstowe Dock and Railway
Company to construct works; to extend and alter the
limits of the dock and to provide that the Dock Workers
Employment Scheme shall not relate to any part
thereof;
to extend the area of jurisdiction of the Harwich
Harbour Board; to enable the Company to regulate
motor vehicle traffic on dock roads and on other places
within those limits; to confer further powers on the
Company; and for other purposes.
[
19th May 1988]
YT/HEREAS—
(1) The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company (hereinafter
referred to as "the Company") were incorporated by the
Felixstowe Railway and Pier Act 1875 under the name of
the 1875
c.
cxiv.
Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company and by that Act were
authorised to construct a railway and pier:
(2) By the Felixstowe Railway and Dock Act 1879, the
1879
c.
clxxvii.
Company were authorised to construct a dock and railway:
(3) By the Great Eastern and Felixstowe Railways Arrange-
ment Act 1887, the railway and pier authorised
by
the said Act
1887
c ixvii.
of 1875 were transferred to the Great Eastern Railway
Company and the name of
the
Company was changed to that
which they now bear:
2 c. xiv Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1988
(4) The Company are now carrying on the undertaking
pursuant to the powers conferred on the Company by the
Felixstowe Dock and Railways Acts 1879 to 1981:
(5)
The existing facilities of the undertaking
are
inadequate to
serve the continually increasing use made of the dock and it is,
accordingly, expedient to construct the work authorised by this
Act:
(6) It is expedient that the Company should be authorised,
for the purpose of the said
work,
to reclaim and acquire part of
the bed of the sea and of the river
Orwell
and foreshore adjacent
to the dock as in this Act provided:
(7) It
is
expedient that
the limits (as
previously defined) of the
dock should be further extended and redefined as in this Act
provided:
(8) It is expedient that the Dock Workers Employment
Scheme 1967 should cease to relate to any part of the limits of
the dock being the limits as previously defined and as further
extended and redefined as aforesaid:
(9) It
is
expedient that the area of jurisdiction of the Harwich
Harbour Board should be extended as in this Act provided:
(10) It
is
expedient that the Company be enabled to regulate
motor vehicle traffic on dock roads and on other places within
the dock limits and, for that purpose, to apply within those
1972
c.
20
limits certain provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1972 and of
1984
c.
27.
the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984:
(11) It is expedient that the other powers contained in this
Act should be conferred on the Company:
(12) The purposes of
this
Act cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
(13) Plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the
work by this Act authorised and the lands which may be used
for
the
purposes of that work, together with a book of reference
to the said plans containing the names of the owners or reputed
owners, lessees or reputed lessees and of the occupiers of all
such lands and describing the same, have been deposited in the
office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill
Office of
the
House of Commons and with the chief executive
of the Suffolk County Council and such plans, sections and
book of reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the
deposited plans, the deposited sections and the deposited book
of reference:
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 Lords Spiritual and
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