Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Dover (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988 and shall come into force on 22nd December 1988.

Interpretation

2. In this Order-

"The Board" means the Dover Harbour Board;

"the harbour" means the harbour as defined in section 4 of the Dover Harbour Consolidation Act 1954(4);

"the signed plan" means the plan signed in triplicate by an Under Secretary in the Department of Transport, two copies of which have been deposited at the Department and one copy of which has been deposited at the offices of the Board situated at the Harbour House, Dover, Kent, CT17 9BU.

Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

3. The limits within which the Board shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of Pilotage under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the harbour) the area coloured yellow on the signed plan, being so much of the sea as lies within one international nautical mile of the seaward limits of the harbour.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

By virtue of section 7(5) of the Pilotage Act 1987 a direction given by a harbour authority for the purpose of making pilotage compulsory for ships navigating in a specified area shall not apply to any area which is outside the authority's harbour unless the limits of jurisdiction of the authority for pilotage purposes have been extended to cover that area.

This Order accordingly extends the limits of jurisdiction of the Dover Harbour Board for pilotage purposes under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 so as to include an area outside the Harbour in respect of which the Dover Harbour Board considers that pilotage should be compulsory.

The applicant for this Order is the Dover Harbour Board.