The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006 and shall come into force on 16th August 2006.

(2) The Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 1978, the Dover (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988(1) and this Order may be cited together as the Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 2006.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1847 Act” means the Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847(2);

“the 1954 Act” means the Dover Harbour Consolidation Act 1954(3);

“the 1963 Act” means the Dover Harbour Act 1963(4);

“the 1964 Act” means the Harbours Act 1964;

“the 1969 Order” means the Dover Harbour Revision Order 1969(5);

“the Acts” means the 1954 Act, the 1963 Act, the Defence (Transfer of Functions) (Dover Harbour) Order 1964(6), the 1969 Order, the Dover Harbour Revision Order 1975(7), the Dover Harbour Revision Order 1977(8), the Dover Harbour Revision Order 1978(9), the Dover (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988(10);

“the Board” means the Dover Harbour Board;

“Board operational premises” means all land outside the harbour within ten kilometres (drawn in a straight line) of the entrance to the Eastern Docks, Dover, and being operational land of the Board (as a statutory undertaker) as defined in section 263(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(11) but does not include land which is not in use for the Board’s undertaking;

“charges” includes charges, rents, poll-tax, dues, rates, fees and commissions of all kinds;

“constable” means a constable appointed under section 79 of the 1847 Act as incorporated in the Acts and modified by article 14(1);

“dangerous goods” means any substance or article or any goods which the Board considers to be potentially hazardous and which are for the time being specified in the table compiled and published in accordance with article 18(10);

“enactment” means any Act whether public general or local and orders, regulations, schemes or byelaws made thereunder and any provisions in any Act or in any such orders, regulations, schemes or byelaws;

“goods” includes articles and property of every description and without prejudice to the foregoing includes fish, livestock and animals of all descriptions;

“the harbour” means Dover Harbour and has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 of the 1954 Act;

“the List” means the list set out in Part 2 of the Recommendations prepared by the Committee of Experts of the United Nations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods published by the United Nations in 1989 and endorsed by the Economic and Social Council by Resolution 1989/104 under reference number ST/SG/AC.10/1/Rev.9 or such later edition of the List as is specified for the purposes of article 18;

“the port police area” means the area referred to in section 79 of the 1847 Act.

(1)

S.I. 1988/2298.

(2)

1847 (c. 27).

(3)

1954 (c. iv).

(4)

1963 (c. xxix).

(5)

S.I. 1969/1578.

(6)

S.I. 1964/932.

(7)

S.I. 1975/568.

(8)

S.I. 1977/2082.

(9)

S.I. 1978/1069.

(10)

S.I. 1988/2298.

(11)

1990 c. 8.