# The Saundersfoot Harbour Empowerment Order 2011, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
1 This Order reconstitutes Saundersfoot Harbour Commissioners as from 1 October 2011. It provides for the Saundersfoot Harbour Commissioners to consist of a body of eight Commissioners with experience in relevant matters, two of whom will be appointed by key stakeholders and six by an appointments panel.
2 The Order—
(a) enables the Commissioners to acquire compulsorily the land and interests at Saundersfoot Harbour;
(b) modernises the Commissioners' powers to—
(i) manage and regulate the harbour,
(ii) charge ship, harbour and goods dues,
(iii) control works and dredging, and
(iv) borrow and use money;
(c) makes new provision about the appointment and liability of the Commissioners and the manner in which they are to conduct their business;
(d) establishes an advisory committee; and
(e) revokes the current legislation regulating the harbour, the Saundersfoot Harbour Order 1958 (S.I. 1958 No. 886).
3 Schedule 1 contains the Commissioners' declaration of acceptance of office.
4 Schedule 2 sets out incidental provisions relating to the Commissioners.
5 The land that may be acquired compulsorily by the Commissioners is described in Schedule 3 to this Order and shown in a plan which is set out in Schedule 4 to this Order.
6 A map showing the limits of Saundersfoot Harbour is set out in Schedule 5 to this Order

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1565/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/saundersfoot-harbour-empowerment-order-2011/note
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