Alf Roberts

moorings at that price would massively reduce the number of boats without mooring.

or possibly "I say, who would buy a frozen lobster"

Do you have a link for that?

Exactly so. Best to be precise about these things of one wants to understand the law. if only CRT wouldn't keep bowing to pressure groups they would have no need to come up with imaginative definitions of these terms. ( or conflate 'bona fide for navigation' with 'bona fide navigation' though, having done so, it's not really surprising people who would rather not do their own thinking use them to bolster their views.)

sorry, I thought he was disussing the 1995 Act. and what has 'bona fide navigation' got to do with anything?

ah, I see. you weren't actually interested in learning the legal definitions of those terms. you just wanted to deliver a 'clever' rhetorical question before delivering your same-old same-old tired rant against anyone who doesn't boat how you want them to. I am sorry it fell flat. ( not ) Yes, thank you, despite your sneer I have actually read that passage. Unlike you I have understood it. 'bona fide used for navigation' means a vessel whose purpose is other than moored permanently in one place. 'bona fide' in this context refers to the fact that it is possible to move (navigate) a houseboat ( by towing for instance ) from one mooring to another. You have also failed to understand the definition of 'place'. It is obvious from your little rant that this is intentional. After all, your nastiness would be meaningless without it. As I say, there is no confusion. There are simply attempts to make a simple set of conditions mean something other than they were intended to. This is not confusion.

it was the judge in the judicial review of the mooring guidance. 'bona fide for navigation' is defined in the 1971 Act ( I think) and thus the 1995 uses it as an already defined term - as I say 'not a houseboat'. 'place' is not a measure of distance, it quite simply means the place where the boat is left. if you try to make it mean something else you get the confusion you seem to be labouring within.

in legal terms 'bona fide for navigation' defines a boat that is not a houseboat ( or any other kind of non navigating structure like a pontoon ) and in the context of the Act 'place' is the place where a boat is left. it's really quite simple if people would stop trying to bend it. I trust you are suitably astonished. (ps my definitions are those used by a judge, just in case you thought I made them up )

you will, of course, have a reference for that statement David?