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Article 2 The port health district

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(1)

For the purposes of the Act, the Port of Tyne together with the parts of the Port of Blyth and the Port of Sunderland and the land and water described in paragraph (2) shall be a port health district.

(2)

The parts of the Port of Blyth and the Port of Sunderland and the land and water described in this paragraph are—

(a)

that part of the Port of Blyth which lies to the south of a line drawn due east from the point where the northern boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside meets the coast (reference point NZ345757) to the seaward boundary of the Port of Blyth;

(b)

that part of the Port of Sunderland which lies to the north of a line drawn due east from the point where the southern boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside meets the coast (reference point NZ408612) to the seaward boundary of the Port of Sunderland;

(c)

as far as the tide flows, the waters of the River Tyne; and

(d)

such parts of the districts of the specified riparian authorities as comprise the whole of any wharf and the areas within the gates of any dock and the buildings on either of them.