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Article 37 Power to lay moorings

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(1)

The Council may provide, place, lay down, maintain, retain, renew, use, have and remove moorings within the harbours—

(a)

on land owned or leased by it; or

(b)

with the consent in writing of the owner and any lessee, on any other land in the harbours.

(2)

The Council may make reasonable charges in respect of any vessel using any mooring provided under this article or moored to land owned or leased by the Council.

(3)

The Council may give notice in writing to a person having control of any mooring in the harbours requiring that person within 28 days to remove the mooring to enable the Council to provide moorings in accordance with paragraph (1).

(4)

The Council must offer to make available to the person having the control of the mooring referred to in paragraph (3) a mooring provided by the Council under paragraph (1) as soon as such mooring has been laid down.

(5)

If any person fails to comply with a notice under paragraph (3), the Council may at any time after the expiration of 28 days from the date of the giving of the notice remove the mooring referred to in that notice.