The Bideford (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1702
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

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

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“the Authority” means the Torridge District Council;

“the Harbour” has the same meaning as in the Bideford Harbour Act 1925;

“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 Authority situated at Town Hall, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2HS.

Section 3 Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

The limits within which the Authority 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 cross hatched pink on the signed plan, being so much of the area outside the Harbour as lies within all that area of sea foreshore and land as is covered by the sea at Mean High Water Springs south of a line from the western-most extremity of Baggy Point to position latitude 51° 08' .6N, longitude 4° 16' .9W, and east of longitude 4° 16' .9W including the estuary of the Rivers Taw and Torridge, the river Taw to Barnstaple Bridge, but excluding the tidal waters of Braunton Pill, and the River Torridge to the existing boundary of the Bideford Harbour.