Parkeston Quay Act 1983
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1983 c. vi |
| Year | 1983 |
Parkeston Quay Act 1983
c. vi 1
ELIZABETH II
1983 CHAPTER vi
An Act to empower Sealink Harbours Limited to construct
works and to acquire land at Parkeston Quay; to confer
further powers on the Company; and for other purposes.
[13th May 1983]
EREAS—
(1)
By
the Sealink Harbours Scheme
1981,
made by Sealink
U.K. Limited in exercise of their powers under section 2 of the
Transport Act 1981, there was transferred from Sealink U.K.
1981
c. 56.
Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Railways
Board) to Sealink Harbours Limited (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Sealink U.K. Limited and hereinafter referred to
as "the Company") on 11th July 1982 (inter alia) all the
property, rights and liabilities comprised in that part of the
undertaking of Sealink U.K. Limited which consists of the
harbour known as Parkeston Quay in the district of Tendring in
the county of Essex:
(2) It
is
expedient that the Company should
be
empowered to
construct the works at Parkeston Quay authorised by this Act
and to purchase the land referred to in this Act:
(3) It
is
expedient that the other powers in this Act contained
should be conferred upon the Company, as therein provided,
and that the other provisions in this Act contained should be
enacted:
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2 c. vi Parkeston Quay Act 1983
(4) Plans and sections showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works to be constructed under the powers of this
Act, and plans of the land authorised to be purchased or used by
this Act, and a book of reference to such plans containing the
names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees
and of the occupiers of the said land were duly 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
and Clerk of the Essex County Council, which 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:
(5) 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 Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Parkeston Quay Act 1983.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this
Act,
unless there be something in the subject or
context repugnant to such construction, the several words and
expressions to which meanings are assigned by the enactments
incorporated herewith have in relation to the relative subject-
matter the same respective meanings; and—
"the Company" means Sealink Harbours Limited;
"the conservancy board" means the Harwich Harbour
Conservancy Board;
"the existing quay" means the quay of the Company
comprising the eastern end of the West Fisher Berth of
Parkeston Quay West and the Mid West Berth of
Parkeston Quay;
"the level of high water" means the level of mean high-
water springs;
"the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation
shown on the deposited plans;
"the river" means the river Stour;
"the statutory maximum" means the prescribed sum as
defined in section 32 (9) of the Magistrates' Courts Act
1980
c.
43.
1980;
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