# The Western Isles Islands Council (Leverburgh) Harbour Revision Order 1995, Article 4: Power to dredge


(1) The Council may from time to time, as may appear to them to be necessary or desirable for the purposes of the undertaking, deepen, widen, dredge, scour and improve the bed and foreshore of the harbour and the approaches thereto, and may blast any rock in that area.
(2) Subject to the provisions of article 29 below, any materials (other than wreck within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894) taken up or collected in the course of such operations shall be the property of the Council and may be used, sold, removed, deposited or otherwise disposed of as the Council may think fit:
Provided that the Council shall not lay down or deposit any materials below the level of high water except in such position as the Secretary of State may approve and subject to such conditions and restrictions as he may impose.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2971/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/western-isles-islands-council-leverburgh-harbour-revision-order-1995/article-4
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