Broads Authority Act 2009

23Notices requiring information from landowners, etc. as to vessels

(1)A notice served by the Authority under section 16 (power of local authorities to obtain particulars of persons interested in land) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57) in respect of any land comprised in or adjoining the navigation area or adjacent waters may require the recipient of the notice to furnish to the Authority, in respect of any vessel such as is referred to in subsection (3), such information as is referred to in subsection (4) as is available to the recipient of the notice.

(2)Section 16 of the said Act of 1976, as extended by subsection (1), shall have effect as though for the reference in subsection (1) to fourteen days there were substituted a reference to twenty-eight days.

(3)Subsection (1) applies to any vessel which at the date of the service of the notice is moored on or adjoining any land such as is referred to in subsection (1), or which has been so moored at any time within a period of 42 days expiring on the date of the notice, but subsection (1) does not apply to any vessel which is ashore.

(4)Such a notice may require the recipient to disclose—

(a)the name, address, telephone number and email address of the owner of the vessel;

(b)details of any person other than the recipient of the notice who has care or charge of the vessel;

(c)information as to whether the owner of the vessel pays rent to the recipient of the notice, or whether it is moored free of charge;

(d)information as to whether any person other than the recipient of the notice has planning permission to allow the vessel to be moored;

(e)information as to whether the recipient of the notice holds keys for the vessel;

(f)information reasonably required to enable the Authority to determine whether the mooring of the vessel constitutes a trespass on the land where it is moored;

(g)details of the type of fuel used on the vessel, and of its engine;

(h)information as to the use made of the vessel.