Section 6 Extent of Port of London

In this Act, “the Port of London” means the port of that name appointed for the purposes of the enactments relating to customs or excise, together with all such waters between—

(a)

the seaward limit of the port as so established, and

(b)

imaginary straight lines drawn from latitude 51° 37” 00’ north, longitude 0° 57” 19’ east (Foulness Point in the county of Essex) to latitude 51° 46” 05’ north, longitude 1° 20” 32’ east (Gunfleet Old Lighthouse) and thence to latitude 51° 26” 36’ north, longitude 1° 25” 30’ east and thence to latitude 51° 24” 55’ north, longitude 0° 54” 21’ east (Warden Point in the county of Kent),

as F1immediately before the coming into force of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 were within the territorial waters of Her Majesty’s dominions.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words substituted by Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 8

Notes on Part I

Modifications

C1

Pt. I (ss. 1-9) modified (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8(2)(3), Sch.2

Pt. I (ss. 1-9) modified (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8(2)(3), Sch.2

C2

Pt. I (ss. 1-9): certain functions transferred (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8(1)(3), Sch.2

Pt. I (ss. 1-9): certain functions transferred (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8(1)(3), Sch.2