# The Teignmouth Quays Harbour Revision Order 2004, Article 6: Power to dredge in river Teign


(1) For the purposes of affording uninterrupted means of access to the new quay and the existing Eastern Quay and of enabling their use at all states of the tide, the Company may from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed of the river Teign within an area extending (including side slopes) up to 50 metres from the outer face of the existing Eastern Quay and of the new quay between reference points 293826: 072771 and 293446: 072899 to a depth of down to 5 metres below Chart Datum and between reference points 293446: 072904 and 293427: 072908 to a depth of down to 1.5 metres below Chart Datum and may (subject to paragraph (2) or (3) 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 such operations.
(2) No materials referred to in this article shall:
(a) be disposed of in contravention of the provisions of any enactment relating to the disposal of waste; or
(b) be deposited below the level of mean high-water springs otherwise than in such places and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State.
(3) 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 1995) found by the Company.
(4) The Company shall not exercise the powers in paragraph (1) above without first notifying in writing the Commissioners.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2469/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teignmouth-quays-harbour-revision-order-2004/article-6
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