Posts Tagged ‘14 day rule’
Friday, October 14th, 2011
BW’s revised Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring follows a meeting with user groups on 23 June. BW has stated that there will be no further consultation or review of this guidance. Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring differs from the draft revision published by BW in April following the judgement in the BW v Davies case.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, Paul Davies, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
A boat without a home mooring may stay for longer than 14 continuous days in one place if it is reasonable in the circumstances, according to the 1995 British Waterways Act. It is advisable to inform BW if you need to do this, and keep them updated of your circumstances and when you expect to leave.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
A boaters’ group has proposed that the transfer of British Waterways to charity status would be an ideal opportunity to put in place statutory protection for the homes of all boat dwellers in the UK. Currently there is no legal recognition of the homes of boat dwellers (a boat is a chattel in law) and no statutory protection from eviction.
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Tags: 14 day rule, BW charity status, continuous cruising, equality, liveaboards, NABO, traveller's rights, Waterways Act 1995
Posted in Continuous Cruisers, Lifestyle, Opinion, The Law | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Here are the minutes of the boaters’ meeting on 14 June 2011, held at The Barge Inn, Honey Street, and an outline of some information posters at the end, which can be copied and enlarged.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, equality, Local Mooring Strategy, meeting, NABO, Paul Davies, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Sharon Brookes, Wiltshire Council’s Equality Officer, gave a presentation to the local mooring strategy meeting on 1st April explaining the duties of statutory bodies such as BW to carry out equality impact assessments of their policies. Under the Public Sector Equality Duty in the 2010 Equality Act, BW is required to do an equality impact assessment of the local mooring strategy. This includes an obligation to analyse the impact of new policies on human rights.
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Tags: 14 day rule, British Waterways, continuous cruising, equality, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Waterways Act 1995, Wiltshire County Council
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Well the judgement is made, published on 31st March 2011.
We are still waiting to see the full judgement so our ability to make informed comment is limited to the two press releases in the two previous posts. The first is prepared by the National Bargee Traveller’s Association and edited by Paul, the second is from the British Waterways website.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, British Waterways, continuous cruiser, continuous cruising, mooring policy, Paul Davies
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The following is a press release issued by British Waterways about the judgement in the case British Waterways v Paul Davies
1 April 2011
British Waterways welcomes today’s (31/3/11) Judgment made in Bristol County Court in which His Honour Deputy Judge O’Malley said he favoured BW’s interpretation of Section 17 of the British Waterways Act 1995 (relating to Continuous Cruising).
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Tags: 14 day rule, British Waterways, continuous cruising, Paul Davies, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
The sixth meeting of the Kennet and Avon Local Mooring Strategy Steering Group took place on 25 February. Damian Kemp confirmed that BW would be taking ongoing advice about carrying out an Equality Impact Assessment from the Equality Officers of Wiltshire and B&NES, Sharon Brookes and Samantha Jones. Plans were made at this meeting for the group to walk the towpath to consider possible mooring changes. The group established the definitions of some of the terms used by BW which had not been clarified, as follows:
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Damian Kemp, equality, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, Waterways Act 1995, Wiltshire County Council
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