The Llanelli Harbour Revision Order 1997

Transfer of harbour undertaking and functions to Council

4.—(1) On the transfer date all the property, rights and liabilities of the Trust shall be transferred to and become property, rights and liabilities of the Council.

(2) On and from the transfer date the Council shall have in respect of the harbour all the duties and powers imposed or conferred on the Trust by any provision of the Llanelly Harbour Acts and Orders 1858 to 1954, and on that date the Trust shall cease to have any such duties or powers in respect of the harbour.

(3) In consequence of paragraph (2) above, on and from the transfer date any statutory provision of local application or document whatsoever (other than a document referred to in article 6 of this Order) shall, so far as it relates to the harbour, have effect (except where the context otherwise requires and subject to any necessary modifications) as if, for any reference however worded and whether expressed or implied—

(a) to the Trust, there were substituted a reference to the Council; and

(b) to any officer or servant of the Trust, there were substituted a reference to the officer or servant of the Council who corresponds as nearly as may be to the first mentioned officer or servant.