The Burry Port Harbour Revision Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2152

HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES

The Burry Port Harbour Revision Order 2000

Made

4th August 2000

Coming into force

25th August 2000

Whereas the Carmarthenshire County Council has applied for a harbour revision order under section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964(1);

And whereas the Secretary of State having, in pursuance of paragraph A2 of Schedule 3 to the said Act(2), determined that the application is made in relation to a project which falls within Annex II to Council Directive 85/337/EEC(3) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment and whose characteristics require that it should be made subject to an environmental assessment, has directed the applicant to supply him with the information referred to in Annex III to the Directive;

And whereas the Secretary of State has in accordance with paragraph 3A of the said Schedule, furnished bodies appearing to him to have environmental responsibilities with the information supplied to him under the said paragraph A2 of that Schedule and has consulted such bodies;

And whereas the Secretary of State has considered the information supplied under the said paragraph A2 and is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (2)(b) of the said section 14;

And whereas objections to the application made pursuant to paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 3 to the said Act have been withdrawn;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, (being the appropriate Minister under subsection (1) of the said section 14(4) in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and now vested in him(5), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

(1)

1964 c. 40; section 14 was amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56), section 18 and Schedule 6, paragraphs 2, 3, 4(1) and 14, and by the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), Schedule 3, paragraph 2.

(2)

Paragraph A2 was inserted by the Harbour Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1946), regulation 2(2). Schedule 3 was amended by the Transport Act 1981, section 18 and Schedule 6, paragraphs 4(2) to (7) and 12 and by the Transport and Works Act 1992, Schedule 3, paragraph 10.

(3)

OJ No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40, amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC (O.J. No. L73 14.3.97, p. 5).

(4)

For the definition of “the Minister” (mentioned in section 14) see section 57(1).

(5)

S.I. 1981/238 and S.I. 1997/2971.