The Whitehaven (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1480
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Whitehaven (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“the Commissioners” means the Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners;

“the harbour” has the same meaning as in the Whitehaven Harbour Act 1962 ;

“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 that Department and one copy of which has been deposited at the offices of the Commissioners situated at the Harbour Office, Pears House, 1 Duke Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7HW.

Section 3 Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

The limits within which the Commissioners 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 pink on the signed plan, being so much of the area outside the harbour as lies within the following imaginary straight lines—

(a) a line drawn due west (true) for a distance of 1 nautical mile from a point at latitude 54 degs 30'.1N, longitude 03 degs 38'.1W;

(b) a line drawn due west (true) for a distance of 1.88 nautical miles from a point at latitude 54 degs 36'.7N, longitude 03 degs 34'.1W; and

(c) a line drawn between the seaward ends of the lines mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) above.