The Port of Wisbech (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1706
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

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

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“the harbour” means the limits of the Port of Wisbech as defined in the Wisbech Town Act, 1810;

“the Harbour Authority” means the Fenland District Council;

“the signed plan” means the plan marked “Plan referred to in the Port of Wisbech (Pilotage) Harbour Revision Order 1988” 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 Harbour Authority situated at Fenland Hall, County Road, March, Cambridgeshire,PE15 8NQ.

Section 3 Extension of limits of jurisdiction for purposes of pilotage

The limits within which the Harbour Authority shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of pilotage under Part I of the Pilotage Act 1987 shall include (in addition to the harbour) so much of the waters of the Wash outside the harbour as lie within the following imaginary straight lines, marked as black lines on the signed plan—

(a) a line drawn due north (true) from a point on the coast of Norfolk at latitude 52° 48'.32N, longitude 0° 20'.E to a point at latitude 52° 55'.24N, longitude0° 20'.E;

(b) a line drawn thence west to a point at latitude 52° 55'.24N, longitude 0° 09'.23E; and

(c) a line drawn thence in a southerly direction to a point on the coast of Lincolnshire at latitude 52° 52'.06N, longitude 0° 09'.30E.

together with all navigable rivers, canals and cuts downstream of Wisbech Bridge running into the waters of the Wash within the above mentioned limits, and including all tidal and closed docks within such limits but excluding any waters within the limits of compulsory pilotage of the King’s Lynn Conservancy Board and the Port of Boston Authority.