The Cornwall Harbours Harbour Revision Order 2023

Article 29

SCHEDULE 3 PURPOSES FOR WHICH BYELAWS MAY BE MADE

1.  Regulating the use of pontoons, stagings, quays, jetties, piers, walkways, bridges, approaches, slipways, landing places, berthing heads, boat lifts, mooring posts, buildings, parking places, and other works and facilities provided by the Council.

2.  Regulating the shipping and unshipping, landing, warehousing, stowing, depositing and removing of goods within the harbours.

3.  Preventing damage or injury to any vessel, goods, vehicle, plant, machinery, property, or persons within the harbours and to any aids to navigation used in connection with the harbours.

4.  Regulating, preventing or licencing the conduct of all persons in vessels or otherwise in the harbours not being—

(a) members of a police force;

(b) officers or servants of the Crown;

(c) members of a fire brigade;

whilst in the exercise of their duties as such.

5.  Regulating the placing, laying down, maintenance, removal and use of moorings within the harbours.

6.  Preventing or removing obstructions (including vessels and vehicles) or impediments within the harbours.

7.  Regulating the launching and recovery of vessels in the harbours.

8.  Regulating or prohibiting the mooring, careening, beaching or anchoring and keeping of vessels in the harbours.

9.  Regulating or prohibiting the use in the harbours or onboard any vessel in the harbours of fires, lights, or any other equipment, tools or appliances which the Council considers involves a risk of fire, explosion or chemical reaction and for the prevention of smoking.

10.  Regulating the removal of rubbish (including ballast, earth or clay or other refuse) and sewerage for vessels in the harbours.

11.  The prevention of the disposal of such rubbish and sewerage from vessels, in the harbours.

12.  Prohibiting the use of or regulating the use, movement, speed, placing, loading, unloading, driving and parking of vehicles in the harbours and the removal of vehicles from the harbours (including by the Council).

13.  Requiring the use of effectual silencers or other similar apparatus and the control of noise generally on vessels in the harbours.

14.  Regulating vessels in the harbours and their entry into and departures from the harbours and, without limiting the scope of this paragraph, for prescribing rules for regulating the speed and manner of navigation or movement and the lights and signals exhibited or made by, or for the benefit of, vessels using, navigating or mooring within the harbours.

15.  Regulating the embarkation of persons on to, or their disembarkation from, vessels within the harbours.

16.  Regulating the holding of regattas and other public events in the harbours.

17.  Prescribing the lights and signals to be exhibited or made—

(a) by vessels aground in the harbours;

(b) by vessels or other devices used for marking obstructions within the harbours.

18.  Assisting the navigation of vessels within the harbours, at the entrance to any dock or at any wharf, pier or other work.

19.  Preventing nuisances in the harbours.

20.  Prohibiting or regulating the discharge by land or sea of any material, substance or thing within the harbours or the approaches to them.

21.  Regulating or prohibiting fishing for marine creatures of any type and by whatever means from any pier, jetty, breakwater, wharf, or other installation or structure of any kind within the harbours, from any vessel within the harbours or from the foreshore where such fishing interferes with the operation of the harbours or the safety of navigation in the harbours.

22.  Regulating or prohibiting aquaplaning, water skiing or diving or other similar activities in the harbours.

23.  Regulating or prohibiting bathing, and for securing the protection of bathers, within the harbours.

24.  Regulating or prohibiting the use of vehicles on the foreshore within the harbours.

25.  Regulating the use of ferries within the harbours and the conduct of boatmen, ferry men, and others plying for hire in the harbours and of persons resorting to any works constructed or operated by the Council.

26.  Regulating the exercise of powers vested in the harbour master.

27.  Regulating vessels, vehicles and persons embarking or disembarking vessels, frequenting or employed in the harbours.

28.  The purposes specified in section 83 of the Act of 1847 (byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named).