The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2012

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Dover Harbour Revision Order 2012 and shall come into force on 16th March 2012.

(2) The Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 2006 and this Order may be cited together as the Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 2012.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1954 Act” means the Dover Harbour Consolidation Act 1954(1);

“the Board” means the Dover Harbour Board;

“deposited plans, sections and elevations” means the plans, sections and elevations which are bound together and signed in duplicate by the Deputy Director, Maritime Commerce and Infrastructure in the Department for Transport with reference to this Order and marked “The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2012 Plans, Sections and Elevations” of which one copy is deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport and one copy is deposited at the office of the Board and a reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to that numbered sheet bound in the deposited plans, sections and elevations;

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

“land” includes land covered by water, any interest in land and any right in, to or over land;

“level of high water” means the level of mean high-water springs;

“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans;

“tidal work” means so much of any work authorised by this Order as in on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands below the level of high water;

“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;

“the undertaking” has the meaning given by section 4 of the 1954 Act;

“works” means the works authorised by article 4 (power to construct works) of this Order.

(2) All points, directions lengths, areas and other measurements stated in this Order (other than the limits of deviation) shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such point, direction, length, area or other measurement.

(3) Reference points specified in this Order shall be construed as references to Ordnance Survey National Grid reference points.

Limits of harbour

3.  The limits of the harbour shall be the area of land the limits of which are shown edged by a red line on sheet number 26 and, accordingly, there shall be substituted for the definition of “the harbour” in section 4 of the 1954 Act, the following definition—

“the harbour” means Dover Harbour the limits of which are shown edged by a red line on sheet number 26 of the deposited plans being the deposited plans defined as such by article 2 of the Dover Harbour Revision Order 2012.

(1)

1954 c. iv (2&3 Eliz. 2)