The Maryport Harbour Revision Order 2007

In forceThis text since 6 Dec 2007law://uk/uksi/2007/3463@2026-11-12

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Type: Statutory instrument · UKSI 2007/3463
Made by: UK Government (statutory instrument)
Extent: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

History · 1 version

6 Dec 2007Reading

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Amended by 2: The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Amendment) Order 2023; The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017

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accumulation
means any accumulation of silt or other material;
aids to navigation
includes lights, buoys, beacons and signals including sound and electronic signals and any structure required to house the same;
appointed Member
means a Member appointed under article 5(1) of this Order.
appointing body
means any of the persons by whom Members are, or are to be, appointed in accordance with article 5 and includes the selection panel;
charges
means the charges, rates, tolls or dues which the Authority are for the time being authorised to demand, take and recover in relation to the undertaking;
construction
includes execution and placing, maintenance, extension, enlargement, alteration, replacement, relaying and removal;
damage
includes scouring, erosion and environmental damage and “damaged” shall be construed accordingly;
drainage work
means any watercourse and any land used for providing flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment, outfall or other structure or appliance constructed or used for land drainage, defence against water (including sea water) or tidal monitoring;
dredging licence
means a licence granted under article 37;
erosion
means any erosion of the bed or shore of the sea or of the bed or banks of the rivers comprised in the harbour;
general direction
means a direction given under article 28;
harbour dues
means ship, passenger and goods dues which the Authority may demand under section 26 of the Harbours Act 1964.
harbour stock
means the harbour stock held under the Maryport Harbour Act 1939.
hovercraft
has the same meaning as in the Hovercraft Act 1968;
hydrofoil vessel
means a vessel, however propelled, designed to be supported on foils;
Member
means a member of the Authority;
mooring
includes any buoy, pile, post, chain, pillar, pontoon or like apparatus or convenience used for the mooring of vessels.
outfall
means— (a) any existing land drainage outfall for which the Agency is responsible;
person responsible
has the same meaning as in section 102(8) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
personal watercraft
means any watercraft (not being a structure which by reason of its concave shape provides buoyancy for the carriage of persons or goods) propelled by a jet engine or other mechanical means of production and steered either— (a) by means of a handlebar-operated linkage system (with or without a rudder at the stern);
plans
includes sections, descriptions, drawings, specifications and method statements and other such particulars;
pleasure craft
means any vessel which has a passenger certificate issued by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulations under section 85 and 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 or which is licensed by the Borough Council under section 94 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907.
protected work
means any work, structure or other apparatus owned or maintained by, or under the control of, the Agency for the purposes of any of its statutory functions;
relevant feature
means any landing place, jetty, embankment, structure or other work in the harbour or on land immediately adjoining the waters of the harbour other than one under the control or management of the Authority.
RPI
means the general index of retail prices for all items published in the monthly publication of the Office for National Statistics known as “Monthly Digest of Statistics”, or any successor from time to time of that index.
seaplane
includes a flying boat and any other aircraft designed to manoeuvre on water but not a hovercraft or hydrofoil vessel;
signals
includes sound signals;
specified work
means any permanent or temporary work or operation authorised by this Order (which includes, for the avoidance of doubt, any dredging and any exploratory geotechnical investigations that may be undertaken);
statutory undertaker
means— (a) any person who is a statutory undertaker for any of the purposes of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
the 1847 Act
means the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847;
the Authority
means the Maryport Harbour Authority as reconstituted and renamed by this Order;
the Borough Council
means Allerdale Borough Council;
the Commissioners
means the Commissioners for the harbour of Maryport;
the County Council
means Cumbria County Council;
the existing Commissioners
means the Commissioners immediately before the new constitution date;
the existing marina works
means the works forming the marina in Senhouse dock and shown for identification purposes on the harbour map;
the existing works
means the works comprised in the harbour as existing under the Maryport Harbour Acts and Order 1866 to 1939 at the commencement of this Order and includes the existing marina works;
the fishery
means any waters containing fish and fish in, or migrating to or from, such waters and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;
the general manager
means the general manager of the Authority, referred to in article 66;
the harbour
means the area described in article 15 of and Schedule 3 to this Order;
the harbour land
means, subject to article 67, the quays, piers, landing places and all other works, lands and buildings for the time being vested in, or occupied and administered by, the Authority as part of the undertaking;
the harbour map
means the map signed in duplicate by the Head of Ports Division in the Department for Transport and marked “Harbour map referred to in the Maryport Harbour Revision Order 2007”, of which one is deposited at the offices of the Department for Transport and one at the offices of the Authority;
the harbour, dock or pier
means the harbour;
the harbourmaster
means the harbourmaster appointed by the Authority and in relation to the harbour includes his authorised deputies and assistants and any person authorised by the Authority to act as harbourmaster;
the level of high water
means the level of mean high-water springs;
the new constitution date
means 1 February 2008;
the repealed enactments
means the enactments specified in Schedule 5 to this Order;
the special Act
means this Order, the expression “the undertakers” means the Authority and the expression “the harbour, dock or pier” means the harbour;
the Town Council
means the Maryport Town Council;
the undertakers
means the Authority and the expression “the harbour, dock or pier” means the harbour;
the undertaking
means the harbour undertaking of the Authority for the time being;
tidal work
means so much of any work as is on, under or over tidal lands below the level of high water and existing at the commencement of this Order;
Trinity House
means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;
vehicle
includes any vehicle propelled on rails, any machinery on wheels or caterpillar tracks, trailers, caravans and mobile homes and includes a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle;
vessel
means every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes any thing constructed or used to carry persons or goods by water, and a seaplane on or in the water, a hovercraft and a hydrofoil vessel.
watercourse
includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers, and the passage through which water flows (whether or not the flow is intermittent) except a public sewer.