Section 76

1. Any maritime usage which falls within a function referred to in section 1B of the Act of 1933.

2. Subject to regulations made under section 98(4)(f), any maritime usage to the extent of which it comprises relevant works within the meaning of section 98 .

3. Subject to sections 111 and 119 , any Schedule 7 usage (within the meaning of section 110 ) undertaken, or proposed to be undertaken, in the maritime area.

4. Any exempted usage (within the meaning of section 114 ) undertaken, or proposed to be undertaken, in the maritime area.

5. Any maritime usage to the extent to which it is undertaken on a privately owned part of the maritime area.

6. Any maritime usage which is navigation or fishing.

7. Any maritime usage authorised under section 638 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or section 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Act 1997 for the purposes of, or consisting of, the placement of aids to navigation.

(8) Any maritime usage for the purposes, or consisting, of the exploration or working of petroleum (within the meaning of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960), or the restoration of the area in which such exploration for, or working of, such petroleum has taken place.

9. Any maritime usage which falls within a class of maritime usage specified, for the purposes of this paragraph, in regulations made under section 76(2).