# The Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order 2005, Paragraph 8: Speed of Vessels navigating the Dockyard Port


(1) All vessels shall comply with any direction which the Queen’s Harbour Master may issue for speed limits from time to time and which may be published in a general or local notice to mariners.
(2) Subject to paragraph (1) above, no vessel, when navigating within the Harbour or (except for water-skiers and jet-skiers in an area for the time being designated by the Queen’s Harbour Master and marked by buoys) when within 0.5 nautical miles of the line of mean low-water springs in any part of the Dockyard Port outside the Harbour shall proceed at a greater speed than 10 knots through the water save for the purpose and subject to the conditions specified in a licence in writing given by the Queen’s Harbour Master.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1470/schedule/2/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-port-of-portsmouth-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-8
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