New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARITIME SERVICES ACT 1935 - SECT 13N

13N Improvement of navigable waters

(1) The Board may, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the navigation of the rivers and channels within, or leading into, the areas vested in it, dredge, cleanse, and scour the said rivers and channels and alter, deepen, cleanse, scour, cut, enlarge and otherwise alter and improve the bed of the said rivers and channels.
The Board may reduce or remove any banks or shoals whatsoever within the said rivers and channels; and may abate and remove all impediments, obstructions, and annoyances, and all nuisances and abuses whatsoever in the said rivers and channels, or on the banks and shores thereof.

(2) The Board may remove, scour, and take away any shoal, mud-bank or other accumulation which impedes the navigation of any area vested in it and may shorten any bend or remove any angle in the course of the rivers and channels within any such area.

(3) The Board may cut the banks of the rivers within any area vested in it for the purpose of making, enlarging, or repairing any dock, canal, drain, sewer, or watercourse, or altering, laying down, or repairing any suction or other pipe, or for any other purpose whatsoever, and may authorise any person to cut the banks for any of the purposes aforesaid, under such restrictions and upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem appropriate.

(3A) The Board may carry out such dredging or deepening of the bed of navigable waters or such repair or improvement of the banks or shores of navigable waters as it considers necessary for the purpose of facilitating the use of those waters by trading vessels.

(4) The Board may within, or in the vicinity of, any area vested in it or any area of navigable waters place and lay down or take up such buoys and beacons and construct and erect such marker piles, channel markers, leading marks, shoal or reef marks and such other apparatus as may be necessary and convenient for navigation or for the protection of vessels or installations.

(5) No work shall be carried out in pursuance of this section in any area which is not vested in the Board without the prior consent and approval of the person in whom that area is vested and of all proper authorities having jurisdiction or control over that area.