8.—(1) For the purposes of affording uninterrupted means of access to the works and of enabling their use at all states of the tide, A.B. Ports may from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the river Humber adjoining or in the approaches to any of the works and may (subject to paragraphs (2) or (3) below) as it thinks fit use, appropriate or dispose of the materials from time to time taken up or collected by it in the course of any such operations.
(2) No materials referred to in this article shall—
(a)be disposed of in contravention of the provisions of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste; or
(b)be deposited below the level of mean high-water springs otherwise than in such places and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State.
(3) The power to use, appropriate or dispose of materials referred to in this article shall not extend to wreck (within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1)) found by A.B. Ports.