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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Coast Protection Act 1949 (c.74)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to SLD for the following years: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. See the Tables of Legislative effects and the Update status of legislation page on the SLD website.

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Coast Protection Act 1949

1949 CHAPTER 74 12_13_and_14_Geo_6

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Coast Protection

    1. Coast protection authorities

      1. 1. Coast protection authorities (E+W)

      2. 1. Coast protection authorities (S)

      3. 2. Constitution of coast protection boards

      4. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Execution of coast protection work

      1. 4. General powers of coast protection authorities

      2. 5. Objections to, and approval of, proposals to carry out coast protection work

      3. 6. Power to make schemes for carrying out work

      4. 7. Works schemes providing for coast protection charges

      5. 8. Confirmation of works schemes

      6. 9. Carrying out of work provided for by works schemes

      7. 10. Recovery of coast protection charges

      8. 11. Incidence of coast protection charges, etc

      9. 12. General powers of maintenance and repair of works

      10. 13. Recovery of cost of maintenance of works not constucted under works schemes

      11. 14. Compulsory acquisition of land

      12. 15. Provisions as to subsisting obligations to carry out coast protection work

    3. General and supplementary provisions relating to Part I

      1. 16. Consent of coast protection authority required to carrying out of coast protection work

      2. 17. Notification to coast protection authority of coast protection work to be carried out by certain authorities (E+W)

      3. 17. Notification to coast protection authority of coast protection work to be carried out by certain authorities (S)

      4. 18. Prohibition of excavation etc., of materials on or under the seashore

      5. 19. Provisions as to compensation

      6. 20. Contributions towards expenses of coast protection (E+W)

      7. 20. Contributions towards expenses of coast protection (S)

      8. 21. Exchequer grants

      9. 22. Power to use for incidental purposes land acquired for coast protection

      10. 23. Power of coast protection authority to sell materials

      11. 24. Provisions as to arbitrations

      12. 25. Powers of entry and inspection

      13. 26. Power of coast protection authorities to require information as to ownership of land

      14. 27. Acquisition by coast protection authority of right of passage for facilitating coast protection work

      15. 28. Power of Minister to facilitate coast protection work

      16. 29. Default powers of Minister

      17. 30. Transfer and compensation of officers, and superannuation rights

      18. 31. Repeal or amendment of local Acts

      19. 32. Application to the Crown

      20. 33. Provisions as to land belonging to ecclesiastical corporations

  2. Part II

    Provisions for Safety of Navigation

    1. 34. Restriction of works detrimental to navigation

    2. 35. Operations excepted from s. 34

    3. 36. Enforcement of s. 34

    4. 36A. Imposition by Secretary of State of safety requirements in cases of emergency

  3. Part III

    1. 37—40... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. Part IV

    Supplementary

    1. 41. Expenses

    2. 42.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 43. Penalties for offences

    4. 44. Regulations and orders

    5. 45. Service of notices and other documents (E+W)

    6. 45. Service of notices and other documents (S+N.I.)

    7. 46. Local inquiries

    8. 47. Savings

    9. 48.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. 49. Interpretation (E+W)

    11. 49. Interpretation (S)

    12. 49. Interpretation (N.I.)

    13. 50. Short title and extent

  5. FIRST SCHEDULE

    Procedure for making Orders and Provisions as to the validity of Orders

  6. SECOND SCHEDULE

    Provisions as to Orders restricting Excavation of Materials from the Seashore

  7. THIRD SCHEDULE

  8. FOURTH SCHEDULE

    Waters excluded for purposes of definitions of “Sea” and “Seashore”

An Act to amend the law relating to the protection of the coast of Great Britain against erosion and encroachment by the sea; to provide for the restriction and removal of works detrimental to navigation; to transfer the management of Crown foreshore from the Minister of Transport to the Commissioners of Crown Lands; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[24th November 1949]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Certain functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2, Sch. 1, and by S.I. 1985/442, art. 2 it is provided that the functions of the Secretary of State under this Act, so far as, immediately before the coming into operation of that 1985 S.I. (1.4.1985), entrusted to the Secretary of State for the Environment, are transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

C2Act restricted by Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53, SIF 102), s. 44(4)

Act amended (1.4.1996) (E.W.S.) by 1996/593, reg. 2, Sch.1

Act: powers transferred (1.7.1999) (except as mentioned in Sch. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent

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