Other commercial activitiesE+W
57.—(1) The Council may, in addition to any other powers conferred on the Council—
(a)carry on at any place a trade or business of any kind including a trade or business carried on in conjunction with another person;
(b)form, invest in and promote, or join with another person in forming, investing in and promoting, a company, for carrying on any part of the undertaking or carrying on at any place a trade or business of any kind,
provided that it is conducive to the improvement, maintenance, operation or management of the harbours in an efficient and economical manner.
(2) Except as is otherwise provided by any enactment or rule of law, the powers of a company referred to in paragraph (1)(b) may include powers to do anything necessary or expedient for the purposes of the objects mentioned in that paragraph or for purposes incidental to those purposes, notwithstanding that the Council would not itself have the power to do that thing.
(3) The powers of the Council under this article are additional to the powers of the Council under section 37 of the Docks and Harbours Act 1966(1) (powers of harbour authorities to acquire a harbour business or shares in a harbour business).
Commencement Information
I1Art. 57 in force at 14.7.2023, see art. 1(1)
1966 c. 28; section 37(3) was repealed by the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), Schedule 4 (Part II).