The Poole Harbour Revision Order 1999

Power to appropriate lands and works for particular trades etc.

15.—(1) The Commissioners may from time to time set apart and appropriate any part of the harbour on the northern side of the new breakwater for the exclusive, partial or preferential use and accommodation of any particular trade, person, vessel or class of vessels, or goods subject to the payment of such charges and to such terms, conditions and regulations as the Commissioners may think fit.

(2) No person or vessel shall make use of any part of the harbour so set apart or appropriated without the consent of the harbour master or other duly authorised officer of the Commissioners; and–

(a) the harbour master or, as the case may be, such officer, may order any person or vessel making use thereof without such consent to leave or be removed; and

(b) the provisions of section 58 (Powers of harbour master as to mooring of vessels in harbour) of the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847(1) shall extend and apply mutatis mutandis to and in relation to any such vessel.

(3) Any person or the master of any vessel, who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with an order of the harbour master under paragraph (2)(a) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(1)

1847 c. 27.