Article 3 Amendment of the 1887 Act to clarify the definition of Port

for “and also such docks basins quays and other works as have by any Act of Parliament been declared to be within or to form part of the port of Southampton” substitute “and the dock estate, as defined in section 5A”;

after section 5 (defining the port) insert—

“Definition of the dock estate

5A.

(1)

In section 5, dock estate means land adjacent to the wet harbour area for the time being vested in, or occupied or administered by A.B. Ports as part of its dock and harbour undertaking at Southampton and occupied wholly or mainly for the purposes of activities there carried on, which may include docks, quays, piers, wharves, berths, locks, breakwaters, landing places, yards, roads, car parks, sheds, other buildings and all other works and conveniences, land and premises.

(2)

In the definition of dock estate, wet harbour area means those parts of the area described in section 5 of this Act which are covered by water at the level of low water.

(3)

In this section, words and phrases defined in the Port of Southampton Harbour Revision Order 2025 have the same meaning as in that Order.”.