The Orkney Islands Council Harbour Revision Order 1989

Made: 11th March 1989

Laid before Parliament: 4th April 1989

Coming into force: 15th May 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 14 of the Harbours Act 1964([^f00001]), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on the application of the Orkney Islands Council, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Orkney Islands Council Harbour Revision Order 1989.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on the date fixed in accordance with the provisions of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Acts 1945 and 1965([^f00002]).

Additional Harbour Areas

2

The limits of the harbour areas, in respect of which Orkney Islands Council is the harbour authority, as set out in the Schedule to the Orkney County Council Act 1974([^f00003]), are hereby altered to include the additional areas described in the Schedule to this Order. The said Act is amended by including at the end of the Schedule thereto the words contained in the Schedule to this Order.

Costs of Order

3

The costs, charges and expenses of and incidental to the preparing for and obtaining of this Order or otherwise in relation thereto (other than costs, charges and expenses which any person is lawfully ordered to pay by the Secretary of State or a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament or any costs incurred in opposing this Order) shall be paid by the Orkney Islands Council.

SCHEDULE

LOTH

The area of tidal waters in that part of Eday Sound adjacent to Loth on the island of Sanday comprising an area within 500 metres in any direction from the level of high water at a point, at latitude 5911'30" North, longitude 241'36" West.

RAPNESS

The area of tidal waters in that part of Rapness Sound adjacent to Rapness on the island of Westray comprising an area within 500 metres in any direction from the level of high water at a point at latitude 5914'57" North, longitude 251'38" West.

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 11th March 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order adds two areas to the Schedule of the Orkney County Council Act 1974 and thereby confers jurisdiction as a harbour authority on Orkney Islands Council within those areas together with the powers contained in the said Act of 1974.

The Order being subject to special parliamentary procedure, the provisions of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Acts 1945 and 1965 determine the date upon which it comes into force.

The applicants for this Order are the Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1964 c. 40, section 14 was amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56), section 18 and Schedule 6, paragraphs 2 to 4 and 14.

[^f00002]: 1945 c. 18 (9 & 10 Geo.6); 1965 c. 43

[^f00003]: 1974 c. xxx.