The Port of Birkenhead Harbour Empowerment Order 1998
UK Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1016 — creates 7 criminal offences.
- Made
- 6 April 1998
- In force from
- 22 April 1998
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Transport: maritime, aviation, rail and harbours
- Made under
- 85/337/EEC, Harbours Act 1964
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order authorises Birkenhead Port Limited (the applicants for the Order) to construct and maintain specified works at Birkenhead and to carry out subsidiary works. The specified works, together with adjacent land of the Company used for the business, form the “port premises”. The Order defines the limits of jurisdiction of the Company as a harbour authority and confers various powers on the Company for the operation and maintenance of its undertaking.
Offences created by this instrument
- Obstruction of works article 10 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Lights on tidal works during construction article 12(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Provision against danger to navigation article 13(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Permanent lights on tidal works article 16(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Obstruction of officers article 24(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Obstruction of officers article 24(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Incorporation of Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847 article 3(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1998