
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) (River Wear) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 18th November 1983.
2 
For paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the Coast Protection Act 1949 (which excludes part of the River Wear for the purposes of the definitions of “sea” and “seashore” in that Act) there shall be substituted the following paragraph, namely—“
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The River Wear, above a line drawn from the south-eastern corner of the pilot lookout station situated on the old North Pier to the north-western corner of the seaward face of the old South Pier.”.
Patrick Jenkin
Secretary of State for the Environment
17th October 1983