The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2006

Procedure for making byelaws

11.—(1) Byelaws made by the Board under the Acts and the 1847 Act and any other power enabling the Board to make byelaws shall be made under the seal of the Board and shall not come into force until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State.

(2) At least one month before an application for confirmation of byelaws is made by the Board to the Secretary of State, notice of the intention to apply for confirmation and of the place at which and the times during which a copy of the byelaws shall be open to inspection shall be published as follows—

(a) once in the London Gazette;

(b) once in each of two successive weeks in some one and the same weekly newspaper circulated in the area of East Kent.

(3) Not later than the first date on which the notice under paragraph (2) of this article is published, the Board shall send a copy of the notice to the Kent County Council, the Dover District Council and the Dover Town Council.

(4) During a period of at least one month before application is made for confirmation of the byelaws a copy of the byelaws shall be kept at the principal office of the Board and shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment.

(5) The Board shall supply a copy of the byelaws or of part of the byelaws to a person who shall apply for it on payment of a reasonable charge.

(6) During the period of one month after completion of the publication of any notice required by paragraph (2) of this article any person may make in writing to the Secretary of State any objection to or representation respecting the byelaws to which the notice relates.

(7) The Secretary of State may confirm the byelaws in the form submitted to him or may subject to paragraph (8) of this article make such modifications as he thinks fit.

(8) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make a modification which appears to him to be substantial, he shall inform the Board and require them to take any steps he thinks necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with that modification and shall not confirm the byelaws until there has elapsed such period as he thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Board and by other persons who have been informed of it.

(9) When confirmed the byelaws shall be published by the Board.