Article 7 Power to dredge
For the purposes of affording uninterrupted and convenient means of access to the works and of enabling their use at all states of the tide, A.B. Ports may, from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the river Orwell—
within the area shaded grey on the deposited plan, to a depth of not more than 8.80 metres below Chart Datum; and
within the area hatched black on the deposited plan, to a depth of not more than 5.90 metres below Chart Datum.
A.B. Ports may (subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below) as it thinks fit use, appropriate or dispose of the materials from time to time taken up or collected by it in the course of any operations authorised by this article.
No materials referred to in this article shall;
be disposed of in contravention of the provisions of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste;
be deposited 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 Secretary of State.
The power to use, appropriate, or dispose of materials referred to in this Article shall not extend to wreck (within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995f1).
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1