Article 19 General powers in respect of harbourI1
England and Wales
The Company may, subject to the provisions of this Order, take such steps as it considers necessary or desirable for the improvement, maintenance and management of the harbour and the facilities afforded therein or in connection therewith.
For those purposes, and without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Company may—
improve, maintain, regulate, manage, mark and light the harbour and provide services and facilities therein;
subject to obtaining the necessary rights in or over land—
execute and place in and over the harbour such structures, works and equipment as are required; and
maintain, renew, alter, extend, demolish and reconstruct structures, works and equipment in the harbour (including those executed or placed pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above;
nourish, replenish and otherwise alter the levels of beaches or improve the foreshore; and
do all other things which in its opinion are expedient to facilitate the proper carrying on or development of the undertaking.
No other provision of the Folkestone Harbour Acts and Orders 1807 to 2017 shall prejudice or derogate from the generality of this article.
In paragraph (3) “the Folkestone Harbour Acts and Order 1807 to 2017” means the Act of 1807, the Act of 1818, the Act of 1844, the Act of 1885, the 1991 Order, the Act of 1992 and this Order.