Code of practiceN.I.
6.—(1) The Department may issue, and may from time to time amend, a code of practice containing such guidance as the Department thinks appropriate in relation to the discharge by a designated harbour authority of its functions.
(2) The code may include guidance setting out aims, objectives and other matters in relation to the discharge of its functions by a designated harbour authority.
(3) It shall be the duty of a designated harbour authority to take account of any relevant provisions of the code when exercising its functions.
(4) The Department shall publish the code as for the time being in force.
(5) The Department may under paragraph (1) make separate provision (by means of separate codes of practice) in relation to different designated harbour authorities and references in this Article to “the code” shall have effect, in relation to any such separate code of practice, as references to that code.
(6) The Department may withdraw the code issued under paragraph (1).