The Boston Barrier Order 2017

Byelaws

52.—(1) In addition to its powers to make byelaws under any other enactment, the Agency may make byelaws in relation to the navigation and use of the river area, and for its good management in connection with such navigation and use.

(2) In particular, byelaws under paragraph (1) may be made for all or any of the following purposes—

(a) for prohibiting or regulating recreational activities;

(b) for regulating navigation and for the prevention of obstruction to navigation;

(c) for regulating the speed and movement of vessels;

(d) for securing the safety of vessels and persons using the scheduled works and of their property, and any property situated within the limits of deviation;

(e) for regulating the passage of vessels, or any class of vessels, through the moveable barrier gate or over or through other structures, works or apparatus, either generally or in circumstances prescribed by the byelaws; or

(f) for preventing swimming.

(3) The Agency must not make any byelaws under this article without the consent of the Harbour Authority.

(4) The Harbour Authority must not withhold its consent to the making of any byelaw except on the ground that it conflicts with or duplicates a byelaw of the Harbour Authority or interferes with the exercise of its statutory functions, and any unresolved question whether there is any such conflict or duplication or interference is to be determined in accordance with article 67 (arbitration).

(5) Nothing in any byelaw made under this article applies to anything done by the Harbour Authority in the exercise of any of its statutory functions and the byelaws of the Harbour Authority are unaffected by any byelaw made under this article.

(6) Byelaws under this article may provide for it to be an offence for a person to contravene, or to fail to comply with, a provision of the byelaws and for such a person to be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(7) The provisions of sections 236(3) to (8) and (11) and 238 of the Local Government Act 1972 (which relates to the procedure for making, and evidence of, byelaws)(1) apply to any byelaws made by the Agency under this article.

(8) In its application to byelaws made under this article by the Agency, section 236 of the Local Government Act 1972 has effect as if in subsection (7), after the word “confirm” where it first occurs, the words “with or without modification” were inserted.

(9) The confirming authority for the purposes of section 236 of the Local Government Act 1972 in its application to byelaws made under this article is the Secretary of State.

(10) The Secretary of State may charge the Agency a reasonable fee for the purpose of defraying any administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in respect of byelaws made under this article which are submitted to the Secretary of State for confirmation.

(11) Where in relation to any byelaws submitted to the Secretary of State for confirmation the Secretary of State proposes to make a modification which appears to the Secretary of State to be substantial the Secretary of State must inform the Agency and require it to take any steps the Secretary of State considers necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification and must not confirm the byelaws until such period has elapsed as the Secretary of State thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Agency and by other persons who have been informed of it.

(12) Save where expressly stated otherwise within this Order, “navigation” includes navigation for recreational purposes except that for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) of this article, “recreational activities” does not include navigation for recreational purposes.

(1)

1972 c. 70.