Port of Bristol Harbour Revision Order 1993
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1993/2974 |
1993No. 2974
HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES
The Port of Bristol Harbour Revision Order 1993
1stDecember1993
3rdDecember1993
Whereas the City Council of Bristol and First Corporate Shipping Limited have applied for a harbour revision order under section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964 ( a) (hereinafter called "the Act");
And whereas there were objections made and not withdrawn to the application for the Order, and an inquiry was held in accordance with paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 3 to the Act;
And whereas after consideration of the objections made and not withdrawn and of the report of the person holding the inquiry the Secretary of State for Transport is satisfied that the making of the following Order is desirable:
Now therefore the Secretary of State (being the appropriate Minister under section 14(7) of the Act) ( b), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Act and now vested in him ( c), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-
Citation and commencement
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Port of Bristol Harbour Revision Order 1993.
(2) The Bristol Dock Acts and Orders 1848 to 1986 and this Order may be cited as the Bristol Dock Acts and Orders 1848 to 1993.
(3) This Order shall come into force on 3rd December 1993.
Interpretation
2.-(1) In this Order-
"the City Docks" means so much of the Port of Bristol and the Harbour of Bristol as is on the City Centre side of the line coloured blue on the signed plan;
"the Company" means First Corporate Shipping Limited;
"the Council" means the City Council of Bristol;
"the designated harbour" means the Port of Bristol and the Harbour of Bristol ( d), as regards which there are vested in the Council, immediately before the operative date, statutory powers and duties of improvement, maintenance and management, other than the City Docks and the Portishead Pier and Docks;
"the level of high water" means the level of mean high-water springs;
"the operative date" means the day after the day on which expires a period of four weeks beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force;
(a) 1964 c.40; section 14 and Schedule 3 were amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c.56), section 18 and Schedule 6, paragraphs 2 to 4, 12 and 14, and by the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c.42), Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 and 10.
(b) For the definition of "the Minister" (mentioned in section 14(7)), see section 57(1).
(c) S.I. 1981/238.
(d) For the limits of the Port of Bristol and the Harbour of Bristol, see the Bristol Port and Harbour Revision Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1931), article 3(1) and Schedule 1, Part II; amended by S.I. 1976/1067.
"the Portishead Pier and Docks" means-
(a) the land shown coloured red on the signed plan; and(b) the pier, jetties, breakwaters, wharves, quays, berths, slipways, roads, bridges, sheds and other conveniences, and the lands, buildings and property of every description and of whatever nature which, immediately before the operative date, are vested in, occupied or administered by the Council for the purposes of or in connection with the harbour undertaking of the Council on the whole or any part of the land mentioned in paragraph (a) above;excluding, in the case of paragraph (b) above, any part of...
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