Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

BERMUDA
1937 : 11

CHANNELS IMPROVEMENT ACT 1937

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Minister to carry out ship channel improvements listed in Schedule

SCHEDULE

Ship channel improvements

[9 April 1937]

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Minister to carry out ship channel improvements listed in Schedule

1 The Minister of Marine and Air Services (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") shall arrange for the employment of the rockbreaker, and other vessels and boats, apparatus, appliances, plant, machinery, fittings and other articles from time to time acquired for use in connec tion with the dredging and deepening operations in Bermuda upon the channel improvement specified in the Schedule as the Minister considers advisable and practicable.

SCHEDULE

Channel Improvements

1 Maintenance of existing ship channels, other than those here inafter mentioned in this Schedule, at existing depths.

2 The widening of the ship channel in the Port of Hamilton be tween Two Rock Passage and Dundonald Channel at No. 44 Buoy pro gressively from the existing width of the channel at Two Rock Passage to a maximum width of five hundred feet at No. 44 Buoy, and the deepening of that part of the ship channel to a depth of thirty feet at mean low wa ter.

3 When weather conditions forbid the use of the rockbreaker and other dredging plant in that part of the ship channel mentioned in para graph 2, then the same shall be employed to deepen the Town Cut Channel at its present width to a depth of thirty-three feet at mean low water, and in the building of a training bank on the southern side of the said channel set back to such a distance from the southern edge of the channel as shall not interfere with the future widening thereof.