The Portland Harbour Revision Order 2010

Power to dredge

8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may, for the purposes of constructing and maintaining the authorised works and to afford uninterrupted means of access to the authorised works and enabling their use at all states of the tide, from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the harbour within an area not exceeding 35 metres in width adjacent to all berthing faces created as part of the authorised works to a depth of not more than 14 metres below Chart Datum (unless the Secretary of State shall otherwise approve in writing).

(2) The Company may as it thinks fit use, appropriate or dispose of any materials (other than wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1)) from time to time dredged, taken or collected by it in the course of any such operations.

(3) 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 high water except in such places and in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State.

(1)

1995 c. 21.