This Order abolishes the Portsmouth and Gosport Joint Board (“the Board”), which was set up by Part 5 of the Gosport and Alverstoke Urban District Council Act 1919 (1919 c.cxxii). By virtue of section 83 of that Act, the Board administers the licensing of watermen in Portsmouth Harbour under the provisions of the Act of 1809 (defined in article 2) and the Act of 1812 (so defined).