Article 7 Power to dredge
Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the port and so much of the bed, shores and channels of the Forth as lie within the port limits and within the approaches and channels leading to the port limits and may blast rock in the area so described for the purpose of affording the uninterrupted means of access to the port or any part of it for the accommodation of vessels or the egress from the port of vessels.
Subject to paragraph (3) below the Company may use, appropriate or dispose of any material (other than any wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the 1995 Actf1 from time to time dredged by it.
No material referred to in this article shall be–
disposed of in contravention of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste; or
deposited below the level of high-water except in such places and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or directed by the Scottish Ministers.
Annotations
Footnotes
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1995 c. 21, see section 255(1).