UK Offence Report

The Chichester Harbour Revision Order 2025

UK Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 705 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
17 June 2025
In force from
11 July 2025
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Transport: maritime, aviation, rail and harbours
Made under
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 empowers the Chichester Harbour Conservancy (“the Conservancy”) as harbour authority for Chichester Harbour to extend the limits of the harbour to include the harbour premises (article 11). Illustrative plans (defined in article 11) showing the harbour limits (including the harbour premises) may be inspected during office hours at the harbour office of the Conservancy at the Harbour Office, Itchenor, Chichester PO20 7AW and on the harbour website (www.conservancy.co.uk). This Order confers on the Conservancy and the harbour master (defined in article 2) powers of general direction and special direction for the regulation and management of the harbour (articles 3 to 9). The powers of general direction are extended to include the regulation of vehicles in the harbour and provision is made for a register of all in force general directions which may be inspected during office hours at the harbour office of the Conservancy (article 3) and on the harbour website. This Order creates an offence of failing to comply with special directions or general directions, the penalty for which is a fine on summary conviction not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale (article 7). A defence of due diligence is available to a person charged under article 7 (article 7). The Order amends the definition of vessel contained in subsection (1) of section 3 (interpretation) of the Chichester Harbour Act 1971 (c. lxx) to modernise the definition of vessel contained within it so that it applies to all vessels. It also amends the charging power in section 71 (power to make certain charges) of the Chichester Harbour Act 1971 and removes a reference to ‘navigated’ in section 72 (harbour charges leviable in certain adjoining waters) of the Chichester Harbour Act 1971 (article 12). An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as there is no, or no significant, impact predicted on businesses, charities, voluntary bodies or the public sector. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside the instrument on the UK legislation website, www.legislation.gov.uk.

Offences created by this instrument

What Parliament said about it

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How Parliament handled it

This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.

Procedure
Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
Could either House amend it?
No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.

Procedural history

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