The Associated British Ports (Immingham Eastern Ro-Ro Terminal) Development Consent Order 2024

Power to appropriate

22.—(1) Regardless of anything in section 33 (harbour, dock and pier to be free to the public on payment of rates) of the 1847 Act or any other enactment, the undertaker may from time to time set apart and appropriate any part of the authorised development for the exclusive or preferential use and accommodation of any trade, person, vessel or goods or any class of trader, vessel or goods, subject to the payment of such charges and to such terms, conditions and regulations as the undertaker may think fit.

(2) No person or vessel may make use of any part of the authorised development so set apart or appropriated without the consent of the dock master, and—

(a) the dock master may order any person or vessel making use of the authorised development without such consent to be removed;

(b) the provisions of section 58 of the 1847 Act (powers of harbour master as to mooring of vessels in harbour), as incorporated by this Order, extend and apply with the necessary modifications to any such vessel.