The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2022

• Citation: S.I. 2022/709
• Sections: 16

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) This Order may be cited as the Dover Harbour Revision Order 2022.

(2) This Order comes into force on 22nd July 2022.

(3) The Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 2016 and this Order may together be cited as the Dover Harbour Acts and Orders 1954 to 2022.

(4) This Order extends to England and Wales.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In this Order—

“the Board” means the Dover Harbour Board ;

“the deposited plan and section” means the plan and section which is prepared in duplicate, signed on behalf of the Marine Management Organisation and marked “The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2022 Plan and Section” of which one copy has been deposited at the offices of the Marine Management Organisation and one copy has been deposited at the offices of the Board, and it is also available electronically on the Board’s website ;

“level of high water” means the level of mean high water springs;

“limits of deviation” means the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plan;

“the harbour” means Dover Harbour and has the meaning given by section 4 (interpretation) of the Dover Harbour Consolidation Act 1954 ;

“tidal work” means so much of any of the works as are on, under or over tidal waters or tidal lands below the level of high water;

“the Maritime and Coastguard Agency” means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency , an executive agency of the Department for Transport;

“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond ;

“the UK Hydrographic Office” means the Hydrographic Office of the Ministry of Defence, Taunton, Somerset TA1 2DN; and

“the works” means the works authorised by this Order, or, as the case may require, any of, or any part of, those works.

(2) All directions, distances, lengths and grid references as stated in any description of the works are to be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such direction, distance, length and grid reference and any reference in the description of works to a point is a reference to that point on the deposited plan.

(3) In this Order longitude and latitude are stated by reference to the World Geodetic System (WGS84), revised in 1984 and further revised in 2004.

Section 3 Power to construct and maintain works

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Board may in the lines and situations and upon the lands delineated on the deposited plan and within the limits of deviation and according to the levels shown on the deposited section, construct and maintain the works described as follows, together with all necessary works and conveniences connected with, or incidental to it—

A wave wall of steel piled construction 70 metres in length, commencing at a point at 51°07’09.3”N, 1°19’14.2”E proceeding in an easterly direction and terminating at a point at 51°07’08.7”N, 1°19’17.6”E the location and a section of which are shown on the deposited plan and section respectively.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Board may, within the limits of deviation, reconstruct, extend, enlarge, replace or relay the works authorised by paragraph (1) and may maintain the same as reconstructed, extended, enlarged, replaced or relaid.

Section 4 Power to deviate

Subject to the provisions of this Order, in carrying out the works authorised by article 3 (power to construct and maintain works) the Board may—

(a) deviate laterally from the lines or situations of those works as shown on the deposited plan to any extent not exceeding the limits of deviation; and

(b) deviate vertically from the levels of those works as shown on the deposited section—

(i) to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards; and

(ii) to such extent downwards as may be found necessary or convenient.

Section 5 Subsidiary works

(1) The Board may from time to time, within the limits of deviation, erect, construct, lay down, place, remove, replace, work or use and maintain whether temporarily or permanently all such works, conveniences and apparatus and take such measures as they from time to time consider fit for the purposes of or in connection with or incidental to the construction, maintenance and use of the works authorised by article 3 (power to construct and maintain works), including, in particular, navigation marks and lights.

(2) In the course of erecting, constructing, laying down, placing, removing and replacing the works authorised by article 3 (power to construct and maintain works), the Board may carry out temporary construction activity, including the temporary placing of plant and equipment in the waters adjoining the limits of deviation.

Section 6 Obstruction of works

Any person who without lawful authority—

(a) intentionally or recklessly obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Board in setting out the lines of or in constructing the works; or

(b) without reasonable excuse interferes with, moves or removes any pole, stake, station point or bench mark established for the purpose of such setting out,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and will in addition be liable to repay to the Board as a debt any expenses incurred by it in making good any damage resulting from such obstruction, interference, moving or removal.

Section 7 Survey of tidal works

The Secretary of State may at any time, if the Secretary of State deems it expedient to do so, order a survey and examination of a tidal work or a site upon which it is proposed to construct such a tidal work and any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in connection with any such survey and examination will be recoverable from the Board.

Section 8 Provision against danger to navigation

(1) In the case of injury to, or destruction or decay of, a tidal work or any part thereof, the Board must—

(a) as soon as reasonably practicable notify Trinity House, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the UK Hydrographic Office; and

(b) lay down such buoys, exhibit such lights and take such other steps for preventing danger to navigation as Trinity House may from time to time direct.

(2) If the Board fails to comply in any respect with the provisions of this article, it is guilty of an offence and liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine; or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

Section 9 Abatement of works abandoned or decayed

(1) Where a tidal work is abandoned, or suffered to fall into decay, the Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the Board at its own expense either to repair and restore the tidal work or any part of it, or to remove the tidal work and restore the site of the tidal work to its former condition, to such an extent and within such limits as the Secretary of State thinks proper.

(2) If, on the expiration of 30 days from the date when a notice under this article is served upon the Board it has failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Secretary of State may execute works specified in that notice and any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in so doing will be recoverable from the Board.

Section 10 Lights on tidal works during construction

(1) During the whole time of the construction, demolition, replacement, reconstruction or alteration of a tidal work the Board must at the outer extremity thereof every night from sunset to sunrise exhibit such lights, if any, and take such other steps for the prevention of danger to navigation as Trinity House may from time to time direct.

(2) If the Board fails to comply in any respect with a direction given under paragraph (1), it is guilty of an offence and liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine; or

(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine.

Section 11 Permanent lights on tidal works

(1) After the completion of a tidal work the Board must at the outer extremity of such a tidal work exhibit every night from sunset to sunrise such lights, if any, and take such other steps for the prevention of danger to navigation as Trinity House may from time to time direct.

(2) If the Board fails to comply in any respect with a direction given under paragraph (1), it is guilty of an offence and liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine; or

(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine.

Section 12 Period for completion of works

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if the works authorised by article 3 (power to construct and maintain works) are not substantially completed within ten years from the coming into force of this Order or such extended time as the Secretary of State may on the application of the Board allow, then on the expiration of that period, or such extended time (as the case may be), the powers by this Order granted to the Board for making and maintaining those works will cease except as to so much of them as is then substantially commenced.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) affects the carrying out of any works under paragraph (2) of article 3 (power to construct and maintain works) or article 5 (subsidiary works).

Section 13 Works to be deemed part of the harbour

The works will be deemed for all purposes to be part of the harbour and all the enactments relating to the harbour, and the byelaws, directions, rules and regulations of the Board for the time being in force relating to the harbour, apply (so far as they are applicable and are not inconsistent with or varied by this Order) to the works and may be enforced by the Board accordingly.

Section 14 Defence of due diligence

(1) In proceedings for an offence under any provision of this Order mentioned in paragraph (2) it will be a defence for the Board to prove that they took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence.

(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) article 8 (provision against danger to navigation);

(b) article 10 (lights on tidal works during construction); and

(c) article 11 (permanent lights on tidal works).

(3) If in any case the defence provided by paragraph (1) involves the allegation that the commission of the offence was due to the act or default of another person, the Board will not, without leave of the court, be entitled to rely on that defence unless, within a period of seven clear days before the hearing, they have served on the prosecutor a notice in writing giving such information identifying, or assisting in the identification of, that other person as was then in their possession.

Section 15 Saving for Trinity House

Nothing in this Order may prejudice or derogate from any of the rights, duties or privileges of Trinity House.

Section 16 Crown rights

(1) Nothing in this Order shall—

(a) prejudicially affect any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown; or

(b) authorise the Board to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with any land, hereditaments or rights of whatsoever description (including any part of the shore or bed of the sea or any river, channel, creek, bay or estuary) belonging to—

(i) Her Majesty in right of the Crown and under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners, without the consent in writing of those Commissioners; or

(ii) a government department, or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, without the consent in writing of that government department.

(2) A consent under paragraph (1)(b) may be given unconditionally or subject to such conditions and upon such terms as may be considered necessary or appropriate.