# The Port of Tyne Harbour Revision Order 2026, Article 14: General functions


(1) The Authority may, subject to the provisions of this Order, take all such steps as it considers necessary or desirable for the maintenance, operation, management and improvement of the port and the port facilities provided within the port or in connection with the port undertaking, and for the conservation of the port’s flora, fauna and geological and physiographical features of special interest.
(2) For those purposes and without limiting the scope of paragraph (1), the Authority may—
(a) improve, maintain, regulate, manage, mark and light the port and provide port facilities;
(b) subject to holding the necessary rights in or over land—
(i) execute and place in and over the port such structures, works and equipment as are required, and
(ii) operate, maintain, renew, alter, extend, demolish and reconstruct structures, port facilities, works and equipment in the port (including those executed or placed in accordance with sub-paragraph (i));
(c) acquire land;
(d) invest any sums not immediately required for the purposes of the port undertaking and turn its resources to account so far as not required for those purposes;
(e) do all other things which in its opinion are expedient to facilitate the maintenance, operation, improvement or development of the port undertaking.
(3) The Authority must publish and maintain a business plan in relation to its maintenance, conservation, operation, management and improvement of the port undertaking, which it must have regard to when performing its port functions.
(4) In the exercise of the powers of paragraph (2)(b), the Authority must not, without the consent of the statutory undertaker concerned—
(a) interfere with, damage or otherwise injuriously affect any apparatus belonging to or maintained by any statutory undertaker;
(b) do anything which obstructs or impedes any work relating to the inspection or repair of any such apparatus.
(5) This article is without limitation of the powers of the Authority under or by virtue of any other enactment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1088/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tyne-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-14
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