Aberystwyth Harbour Act 1987

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1987 c. xiv
Aberystwyth Harbour Act 1987 c xiv 1
ELIZABETH n
1987 CHAPTER xiv
An Act to empower the Ceredigion District Council
(Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion) to construct works and to
purchase or use lands at Aberystwyth Harbour; to
confer powers on the Council as the harbour authority
for that harbour; for the provision of facilities therein;
for the regulation of the harbour; and for other
purposes. [ 15th May 1987]
VT^ZHEREAS
(1) The Ceredigion District Council otherwise known as
Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion (hereinafter referred to as "the
Council") are the harbour authority for Aberystwyth Harbour
(hereinafter referred to as "the harbour") which is a fishery
harbour as defined in section 21 of the Sea Fish Industry Act
1951:
1951
c. 30.
(2) It
is
expedient to empower
the
Council to construct
in
the
harbour the works described in this Act. to purchase or use the
lands referred to in this Act and to confer further powers on the
Council in relation to the harbour:
(3) Certain local statutory provisions were enacted between
1780 and 1913 in relation to the harbour but these do not
2 c. xiv Aberystwyth Harbour Act 1987
provide adequately for the regulation and management of the
harbour and it is therefore expedient that some of the said
provisions should be re-enacted with amendments, and that
other such provisions should be repealed:
(4) It is further expedient to confer additional powers on the
Council for the provision of facilities in the harbour and for the
regulation and management of the harbour:
(5) It is expedient that the other provisions of this Act be
enacted:
(6) The objects of this Act cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
(7) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
1972 c. 70. requirements of section 239 of the Local Government Act 1972
have been observed:
(8) A plan and sections showing the lines or situations and
levels of the works to be constructed under the powers of this
Act, and a plan of the lands authorised to be purchased or used
by this Act, and a book of reference to such plan containing the
names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees
and of the occupiers of the said lands have been duly deposited
in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private
Bill Office of the House of Commons and with the proper officer
of the Dyfed County Council, which plan, sections and book of
reference are respectively referred to in this Act as the deposited
plan, the deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short
title.
* This Act may be cited as the Aberystwyth Harbour Act
1987.
Interpretation. 2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
1847 c. 27. "the Act of 1847" means the Harbours, Docks, and Piers
Clauses Act 1847;
"the approaches" means any seaward approaches to the
harbour;
"the Council" means the Ceredigion District Council
otherwise known as Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion;
"daily fine" means a fine for each day or part of a day on
which an offence
is
continued after conviction
thereof;
Aberystwyth Harbour Act 1987 c. xiv 3
"general direction" means a direction given under section
PART
I
47 (General directions to vessels) of this
Act;
—cm.
"the harbour" means the harbour of Aberystwyth in the
county of Dyfed the area whereof is described in
section 22 (Harbour limits) of, and Schedule
3
to,
this
Act and, so far as the same is not within that area,
includes the harbour estate;
"harbour estate" means the
piers,
jetties, wharves, quays,
berths, slipways,
roads,
bridges,
sheds
and other works
and conveniences, and the lands, buildings and
property of every description and of whatever nature,
which are for the time being vested in, occupied or
administered by the Council for the purposes of the
harbour undertaking;
"the harbour master" means the harbour master of the
Council and includes his authorised deputies and
assistants and
any person
authorised
by the
Council to
act in that capacity;
"the harbour undertaking" means the undertaking of the
Council in connection with the harbour,
as
from time
to time authorised, or any part
thereof;
"level of
high
water" means the level of mean high-water
springs;
"the limits of deviation" means the limits of deviation
shown on the deposited plan;
"moorings" includes floating
jetties,
pontoons, buoys and
like apparatus or facilities;
"special direction" means a direction given under section
46 (Special directions to vessels) of
this
Act;
"tidal work" means so much of any work authorised
by
Part
II
of
this Act as is
on,
under
or
over
tidal
waters
or tidal lands below the level of high water;
"Trinity House" means the Corporation of Trinity House
of Deptford Strond;
"vehicle" means a vehicle of any description and includes
a trailer, caravan or machine of any kind drawn or
propelled along or over land whether by animal or
mechanical power and includes a hovercraft within
the meaning of
the
Hovercraft Art_1968_pr any otheiU968
c.
59.
amphibious vehicle;
"vessel" means a ship, boat or raft of
any
description and ,
includes any other thing constructed or adapted lor
-
^
floating on or being submersed in water (whether
permanently or temporarily); and includes a
hovercraft within the meaning_ofJh^HwercraJlAct^
1968 or anv other amphTRous vehicle or a seaplane;
"the water authority" means the Welsh Water Authority;
and

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