Littlehampton (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1988/2157 |
| Year | 1988 |
1988 No. 2157
HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES
The Littlehampton (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988
Made 6th December 1988
Coming into force 7th December 1988
The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Harbours Act 19641and now vested in him2and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on the application of the Littlehampton Harbour Board in accordance with section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 19873, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Littlehampton (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988 and shall come into force on 7th December 1988.
Interpretation
2. In this Order —
“the Board” means the Littlehampton Harbour Board;
“the harbour” means the harbour as defined in section 36 (Limits of harbour) of the Littlehampton Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act 19274;
“the signed plan” means the plan signed in triplicate by an Under Secretary in the Department of Transport, two copies of which have been deposited at that department and one copy of which has been deposited at the principal office of the Board situated at 1 Pier Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 5LR.
Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage
3. The limits within which the Board shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of pilotage under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the harbour) the area coloured pink on the signed plan, being the waters of the sea for a distance of three nautical miles from low water mark of ordinary spring tides bounded on the west by an imaginary line joining Halnaker Mill and Middleton Church and on the east by an imaginary line joining Chanctonbury Ring and Goring Church.
J.W.S. Dempter
An Under Secretary in the
Department of Transport
6th December 1988
(This note is not part of the Order)
By virtue of section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 1987 a direction given by a harbour authority for the purpose of making pilotage compulsory for ships navigating in a specified area shall not apply to any area which is outside the authority’s harbour unless the limits of jurisdiction of the authority for pilotage purposes have been extended to cover that area.
This Order accordingly extends the limits of jurisdiction of the Littlehampton Harbour Board for pilotage...
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