The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2001

PART I PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Poole Harbour Revision Order 2001.

(2) The Poole Harbour Acts and Orders 1756 to 1999 and this Order may be cited together as the Poole Harbour Acts and Orders 1756 to 2001.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below this Order shall come into force on 25th August 2001.

(4) Article 13 of this Order shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1847 Act” means the Commissioners' Clauses Act 1847(1);

“appointing authority” means any of the persons by whom Commissioners are, or are to be, appointed in accordance with article 4 below and includes the selection panel;

“the Chairman” means the Chairman of the Commissioners;

“the Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Commissioners;

“the Commissioners” means the Poole Harbour Commissioners;

“first appointments” means the first appointments to be made after the coming into force of this Order;

“the harbour” means the area as defined in sections 3 and 4 of Poole Harbour Act 1914(2);

“the new constitution date” means 1st November 2001;

“the selection panel” means the panel constituted under article 5 below.

Incorporation of the Commissioners' Clauses Act 1847

3.—(1) Sections 13 to 16, 37, 41 to 50, 52, 53, 60, 99 to 101, and 103 of the 1847 Act are hereby incorporated with, and form part of, this Order.

(2) The 1847 Act as so incorporated shall have effect as if for references to the clerk there were substituted references to the Chief Executive.

(3) References in the 1847 Act as so incorporated to monthly meetings shall be construed as references to the meetings held in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(4) Section 16 of the 1847 Act as so incorporated shall have effect as if the words “or who for six months in succession is absent from all meetings of the Commissioners” were omitted.

(5) Section 60 of the 1847 Act as so incorporated shall apply to officers and employees of the Commissioners as it applies to individual Commissioners.

(6) So much of the Poole Harbour Acts and Orders 1756 to 1999 as incorporates any provision of the 1847 Act other than those referred to in paragraph (1) above shall cease to have effect.

(1)

1847 c. 16.

(2)

1914 c. clv.