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17.—(1) If it appears to the Council necessary or convenient to do so for the purposes of the construction or maintenance of the authorised works, it may, having first consulted the Queen’s Harbour Master, remove any vessel that is–
(a)sunk, stranded or abandoned within the limits of deviation, or
(b)moored or left there (whether lawfully or not),
either to another place within those limits or to a place outside those limits where it may without injury to the vessel be moored or laid.
(2) Before exercising the powers conferred by paragraph (1) above the Council shall–
(a)publish a notice of its intention to do so in Lloyds List and once in each of two successive weeks in a local newspaper published or circulating in the borough of Gosport, with an interval between the dates of publication of not less than 6 clear days, and
(b)display notice thereof in a conspicuous position adjacent to Forton Lake.
(3) Each of the notices shall–
(a)state that the Council intends to construct or maintain (as the case may be) the authorised works, and
(b)specify a date, which shall be a date not earlier than one month after the last date on which a notice is published pursuant to paragraph (2)(a) above, by which all vessels must be removed from within the limits of deviation.
(4) If the master of any vessel within the limits of deviation does not remove that vessel from within those limits before the date specified in accordance with paragraph (3)(b) above, the Council may, having first consulted the Queen’s Harbour Master, cause that vessel to be removed.
(5) The Council may recover as a debt from the owner of any vessel removed pursuant to paragraph (4) above all expenses incurred by the Council in respect of its removal.
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