Statutory Instruments
2012 No. 2608
Merchant Shipping
Maritime Security
The Port Security (Port of Grangemouth) Designation Order 2012
Made
15th October 2012
Laid before Parliament
18th October 2012
Coming into force
19th November 2012
The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1).
The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to port security, measures relating to the safety of ships and the health and safety of persons on them, and maritime transport(2).
Citation and commencementI1
1. This Order may be cited as the Port Security (Port of Grangemouth) Designation Order 2012 and comes into force on 19th November 2012.
Port boundaryI2
2. For the purposes of regulation 3(2)(a) of the Port Security Regulations 2009(3) the boundary of the Port of Grangemouth is delineated by the red line on the plan in Schedule 1.
The Grangemouth Port Security AuthorityI3
3. [F1 —(1) For the purposes of the Port Security Regulations 2009 , Port of Grangemouth Security Authority Limited (company number SC458041), a company limited by guarantee (“the Authority”), is designated as the port security authority for the port of Grangemouth. F1]
F2(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F3 (3) The Authority is not to be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown or as enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown and its property is not to be regarded as property of, or held on behalf of, the Crown.F3]
ReviewI4
4.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—
(a)carry out a review of this Order,
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26th October 2005 (which is implemented by means of the Port Security Regulations 2009(4)) is implemented in other member States.
(3) The report must in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those Regulations and this Order,
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.
(4) The first report under this article must be published [F4before 19th November 2017F4] .
(5) Reports under this article are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Stephen Hammond
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
15th October 2012
Article 2
SCHEDULE 1 Boundary of the Port of Grangemouth I5
Article 3(2)
F5SCHEDULE 2 The Grangemouth Port Security Authority
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1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).
S.I. 1993/595, 1994/757 and 2004/706.