
PART 1
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(1) This Order may be cited as the Blyth (Extension of Limits) Harbour Revision Order 2025.
(2) This Order comes into force on 2nd June 2025.
(3) The Blyth Harbour Acts and Orders 1858 to 2015 and this Order may together be cited as the Blyth Harbour Acts and Orders 1858 to 2025.
(4) This Order extends to England and Wales.
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In this Order—
 “the 1986 Act” means the Blyth Harbour Act 1986;
 “Ash Barge Dock” means the area which is shown edged red on the Ash Barge Dock Limits Plan;
 “the Ash Barge Dock Limits Plan” means the plan prepared in duplicate, signed on behalf of the Marine Management Organisation and marked “Signed Ash Barge Dock Limits Plan referred to in The Blyth (Extension of Limits) Harbour Revision Order 2025”, one copy of which is deposited at the offices of the Marine Management Organisation and one copy at the offices of the Commissioners, and it is also available electronically on the Commissioners website;
 “the Commissioners” means the Blyth Harbour Commissioners; and
 “Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.
PART 2
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(1) The limits of the harbour as defined in section 11 (limits of jurisdiction) of the 1986 Act are extended to include Ash Barge Dock, as shown on the Ash Barge Dock Limits Plan.
(2) The 1986 Act is accordingly amended as follows.
(3) In section 2 (interpretation) after the first line, insert—“
 “Ash Barge Dock” has the same meaning as in The Blyth (Extension of Limits) Harbour Revision Order 2025;
 “the Ash Barge Dock Limits Plan” has the same meaning as in The Blyth (Extension of Limits) Harbour Revision Order 2025;”.
(4) In section 11 (limits of jurisdiction)—
(a) in paragraph (b) omit “and”, and
(b) after paragraph (b) insert—“
(ba) Ash Barge Dock; and”.
PART 3
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This Order must not prejudice or derogate from any of the rights, duties or privileges of Trinity House.
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(1) Nothing in this Order—
(a) prejudicially affects any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown, or
(b) authorises the Commissioners to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with any land or interests in land or any 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) His Majesty in right of the Crown and under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioner, without the consent in writing of those Commissioners, or
(ii) a government department held in trust for His Majesty for the purposes of a government department, or 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.
Signed by authority of the Marine Management Organisation
Michelle Willis
Acting Chief Executive Officer
An authorised employee of the Marine Management Organisation
7th May 2025