The Port of Heysham (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1946

HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES

The Port of Heysham (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Made

22nd September 1988

Coming into force

31st October 1988

Whereas an objection to this Order has been made and not withdrawn and the Secretary of State for Transport is required, in accordance with the procedure prescribed in paragraph 4A of Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964(1), to give notice of the making of this Order and its effect to the person opposing the Order;

And whereas this Order shall come into force 28 days after the giving of such notice unless such person gives notice to the Secretary of State that he maintains his opposition to the Order, and his opposition is not withdrawn before that date, in which case it shall come into force at such time as prescribed in the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945(2);

Now therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964 and now vested in him(3) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on application of Sealink Harbours Limited in accordance with section 7 (5) of the Pilotage Act 1987(4), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Port of Heysham (Pilotage) Harbour RevisionOrder 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Authority” means Sealink Harbours Limited;

“the port” means the Port of Heysham as described in section 46 of the North Western Railways Act 1852(5);

“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 offices of the Authority situated at Sea Containers House, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PF.

Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

3.  The limits within which the Authority shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of pilotage under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the port), the area shaded pink on the signed plan, being a channel with boundaries as follows:

On the North West Side
From position	54° 00'.40 North02° 57'.60 West
through	53° 59'.00 North03° 01'.20 West
through	53° 57'.30 North03° 05'.60 West
to	53° 55'.80 North03° 11'.00 West
On the South East Side
From position	54° 00'.30 North02° 57'.10 West
through	53° 57'.00 North03° 04'.40 West
to	53° 55'.50 North03° 08'.90 West

Paul Channon

Secretary of State for Transport

22nd September 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

By virtue of section 7 (5) of the Pilotage Act 1987 a direction given by a competent harbour authority for the purposes 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 Sealink Harbours Limited for pilotage purposes under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 so as to include an area outside the port in respect of which the authority considers that pilotage should be compulsory.

The applicant for this Order is Sealink Harbours Limited.

(1)

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.

(2)

1945 c. 18, as amended by the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1965 (c. 43).

(3)

S.I. 1981/238.

(4)

1987 c. 21.

(5)

1852 c.cxxxv.