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The Weymouth Harbour Revision Order 2021

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Article 20

SCHEDULE 1PURPOSES FOR WHICH BYELAWS MAY BE MADE

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1.  regulating the use of any works and facilities provided by the Council;

2.  preventing damage or injury to any vessel, goods, vehicle, plant, machinery, property or persons within the harbour and to any aids to navigation which are used in connection with the harbour;

3.  regulating the conduct of all persons within the harbour, not being—

(a)members of a police force;

(b)officers or servants of the Crown; or

(c)members of a fire brigade, whilst in the exercise of their duties as such;

4.  regulating the placing, maintenance and use of moorings within the harbour;

5.  preventing and removing obstructions or impediments within the harbour or the harbour premises;

6.  regulating the launching of vessels into the harbour and /or from the harbour premises;

7.  regulating or prohibiting the use in the harbour or on board any vessel therein of fires, lights, tobacco or any other substance, equipment, tools or appliances which the Council considers involves a risk of fire, explosion or chemical reaction;

8.  prohibiting the use of or regulating the use, movement, speed, placing, loading, unloading, driving and parking of vehicles within the harbour premises;

9.  requiring the use of silencers or other similar apparatus, and the control of noise generally on vessels in the harbour;

10.  regulating the navigation of vessels in the harbour and their entry into and departure therefrom and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for prescribing rules for regulating the speed and manner of navigation and the lights and signals to be exhibited or made by, or for the benefit of, vessels using, navigating or mooring within the harbour;

11.  regulating the embarkation of persons on, or their disembarkation from, vessels within the harbour;

12.  prescribing the lights and signals to be exhibited or made—

(a)by vessels aground within the harbour;

(b)by vessels or other devices used for marking obstructions within the harbour; and

(c)at the entrance to any dock or at any wharf, pier or other work for assisting the navigation of vessels within the harbour;

13.  prohibiting or regulating the discharge into the harbour of any material or substance;

14.  regulating or prohibiting fishing for marine creatures of any type and by whatever means from any pier, jetty, wharf, breakwater or other installation or structure of any kind within the harbour, from any vessel within the harbour or from the foreshore where such fishing interferes with the operation of the port or the safety of navigation in the harbour;

15.  regulating or prohibiting bathing within the harbour;

16.  regulating or prohibiting the use by vehicles of the foreshore within the harbour premises;

17.  regulating the berthing, mooring and anchoring of vessels in any part of the harbour and regulating the careening and beaching of vessels within the harbour;

18.  regulating the use within the harbour of yachts, sailing boats, rowing boats, pleasure craft, windsurfers, kitesurfers, jet bikes, jet kayaks, flyboards, other personal watercraft and other small craft;

19.  regulating or prohibiting the activities within the harbour of divers, surfers, underwater swimmers, water-skiers and other persons engaged in similar recreational pursuits (including those engaged on a commercial basis);

20.  regulating the conveyance to and the laying down at or on the harbour premises of all goods intended for shipment;

21.  regulating the control of animals within the harbour;

22.  preventing the disposal of any waste matter except at places or in a manner prescribed by the Council;

23.  regulating the conveyance, landing, laying down, discharge and removal of goods, gear, equipment, timber, logs, floats, or rafts of timber and other items within the harbour or the harbour premises;

24.  regulating the exercise of the powers vested in the harbour master; and

25.  for the purposes specified in section 83 of the Act of 1847 (Byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named).

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