28.—(1) The Commissioners may demand, take and recover in respect of anything done or provided by them or on their behalf in relation to the harbour or the harbour estate such reasonable charges as they may determine.
(2) In paragraph (1) above “charges” does not include ship, passenger or goods dues.
29. Charges shall be payable subject to such conditions as the Commissioners may from time to time specify in their published list of charges.
30.—(1) The several charges which the Commissioners are for the time being authorised to demand, take and recover in respect of vessels and goods shall be due and payable before the removal from the harbour or the harbour estate of any vessel or goods in respect of which they are payable and may be demanded, taken and recovered by such persons and at such places and times as the Commissioners may from time to time appoint.
(2) Charges shall be payable by the owner of any vessel or goods in relation to which the charges are payable.
(3) Where charges may be recovered by the Commissioners from more than one person, the persons from whom they may be recovered shall be jointly and severally liable.
31. Notwithstanding the provisions of article 8 (Power to remove goods) of this Order, the owner or person having the charge of any goods warehoused, placed, stored or yarded in a warehouse, transit shed or area, store or yard of the Commissioners shall, before the removal of any of the goods therefrom and at such a date or dates as shall be fixed by the Commissioners, pay such charges as shall be then due and payable on the goods.
32. In addition to any other remedy afforded by this Order and by the Act of 1847 as incorporated with this Order, and whether or not the demand required by section 44 (Recovery of tonnage rates by distraint of ship and tackle) of that Act has been made, the Commissioners may recover charges as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.
33. All persons going to or returning from any lifeboat or using any apparatus for saving life and being persons either belonging to the crew of the lifeboat or to the coastguard or being persons for the time being actually employed in saving life or in exercising or using the lifeboat or the apparatus for saving life and all persons brought ashore from any vessel in distress shall at all times have free ingress, passage and egress to, along and from the harbour without payment.
34. Officers of the Department of Transport, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and of the Health and Safety Executive and constables acting in the execution of their duty shall at all times have free ingress, passage and egress to, along and from the harbour without payment.