# The Hinkley Point Harbour Empowerment Order 2012, Article 8: Power to dredge

Extent: E+W+S

(1) The Company may, for the purposes of constructing, maintaining or using the works and of affording access to the harbour by vessels from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve so much of the bed, shores and channels of Bridgwater Bay as lies within the harbour limits and may use, appropriate or dispose of the materials (other than wreck within the meaning of section 255 (interpretation) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 ), from time to time dredged by it.
(2) The Company must not lay down or deposit such materials in any place below the level of high water otherwise than in such position and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Marine Management Organisation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1914/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/hinkley-point-harbour-empowerment-order-2012/article-8
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