3.—(1) AB Ports may on a day within 42 days beginning with the coming into force of this Order close the Prince of Wales Dock.
(2) Upon the closure of the Prince of Wales Dock under paragraph (1)—
(a)the Prince of Wales Dock ceases to form part of the Port of Swansea;
(b)all duties and obligations imposed on AB Ports under the Swansea Harbour Acts 1874 – 1901 with respect to or in connection with the Prince of Wales Dock are to cease;
(c)any and all rights of navigation within the Prince of Wales Dock are extinguished;
(d)any and all duties or obligations to maintain a navigable channel to the Prince of Wales Dock within the area shown hatched blue on the Prince of Wales Dock plan or to maintain a swing bridge across that area are extinguished.
(3) Before exercising the power conferred on it by paragraph (1) AB Ports must—
(a)publish a notice of its intention to close the Prince of Wales Dock in Lloyd’s List and once in each of two successive weeks in a local newspaper published or circulating in Swansea with an interval between the dates of publication of not less than six working days;
(b)display a copy of one of the notices referred to in paragraph 3(a) in a conspicuous position in the vicinity of the Port of Swansea;
(c)give notice of its intention in writing to close the Prince of Wales Dock to the Welsh Ministers.
(4) The notices referred to in paragraph 3(a) must—
(a)state that AB Ports intends to close the Prince of Wales Dock to vessels and the date from which the Prince of Wales Dock is to close to vessels;
(b)specify a date, which is a date not earlier than one month after the date of the latest of the three notices in paragraph (3)(a) by which all vessels must be removed from the Prince of Wales Dock.