The Weymouth and Portland (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1707

HARBOUR, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES

The Weymouth and Portland (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

Made

29th September 1988

Coming into force

1st October 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964(1) and now vested in him (2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on the application of the Borough Council of Weymouth and Portland in accordance with section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 1987(3), hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Weymouth and Portland (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order —

“the authority” means the Borough Council of Weymouth and Portland;

“the Harbour” has the same meaning as in the Weymouth Harbour Byelaws made under section 41 Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Corporation Act 1887 (4), namely the tidal inlet of the sea known as Weymouth Harbour and so much of the area seaward thereof as is referred to in section 8 of the Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Corporation Act 1887 as shown on the map annexed to those byelaws.

“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 in North Quay, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8TA.

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 1 of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the Harbour) the area coloured pink on the signed plan, being so much of the area outside the Harbour as lies to the west of a line joining Grove Point (Portland, latitude 50°32'.922 N, longitude 02°24'.867 W and White Nothe, latitude 50°37'.450 N, longitude 02°19'.317 W.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J. W. S. Dempster

An Under Secretary in the

Department of Transport

29th 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 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 Weymouth and Portland Borough Council for pilotage purposes under Part 1 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 the Borough Council of Weymouth and Portland.

(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)

S.I. 1981/238.

(3)

1987 c. 21.

(4)

1887 c.cliii.