The Dumfries and Galloway Council (Kirkcudbright) Harbour Revision Order 2018

PART IV MISCELLANEOUS

Reserve funds

37.—(1) If in respect of any financial year the moneys received by the Council on account of the revenue of the harbour undertaking exceed the moneys expended or applied by it in respect thereof, the Council may in respect of that year carry to the credit of a reserve fund in respect of the harbour undertaking such a sum as it considers reasonable not exceeding the amount of such excess.

(2) Moneys for the time being standing to the credit of the reserve fund may be invested in any securities in which officers are for the time being authorised to invest moneys including debenture stock or other security created by the Council.

(3) Any reserve fund provided under this article may be applied—

(a) in making good to the regional rate fund any deficiency at any time arising in the income of the Council from the harbour undertaking;

(b) in meeting any extraordinary claim or demand at any time arising against the Council in respect of the harbour undertaking;

(c) in defraying any expenditure in connection with the harbour undertaking for which capital is properly applicable or in providing money for repayment of loans;

(d) in defraying expenditure to be incurred from time to time in repairing, maintaining, replacing and renewing buildings, works, plant, vessels, equipment or articles forming part of the harbour undertaking; or

(e) for any purpose which in the opinion of the Council is desirable in the interests of securing the improvement, maintenance or management of the harbour in an efficient and economical manner or of facilitating the efficient and economic transport of goods or passengers by sea to or from the harbour.

(4) The Council may exercise the powers of this article so as to provide a combined reserve fund in respect both of the harbour undertaking and any other similar undertaking of the Council, and the foregoing provisions of this article as to a reserve fund shall apply with all necessary modifications to any such combined reserve fund.

(5) Any monies held in any combined reserve fund referred to in paragraph 4 may be applied for the purposes of any of the Council’s harbour undertakings.

Saving for Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses

38.  Nothing in this Order shall prejudice or derogate from any of the, rights, duties, or privileges of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.

Saving for landowner

39.  Nothing in this Order shall prejudicially affect the ownership by St Mary’s Isle Estate (successor to the Earl of Selkirk) (or its successors) of any part of the foreshore situated within the harbour.

Saving for Kirkcudbright Common Good

40.  Nothing in this Order shall prejudicially affect any estate, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Kirkcudbright Common Good Fund.

Crown rights

41.—(1) Nothing in this Order affects prejudicially any estate, right, power, privilege, authority or exemption of the Crown and in particular and without prejudice to that generality, nothing in this Order authorises the Council to take, use, enter upon or in any manner interfere with any land or any rights of whatsoever description (including any portion of the shore or bed of the sea or any river, channel, creek, bay or estuary)—

(a) belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown and forming part of the Crown estate without the consent in writing of the Crown Estate Commissioners;

(b) belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown and not forming part of the Crown estate without the consent in writing of the government department having management of that land or (as the case may be) the relevant person; or

(c) belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department without the consent in writing of that government department.

(2) A consent under paragraph (1) may be given unconditionally or subject to terms and conditions; and shall be deemed to have been given in writing where it is sent electronically.

Repeal

42.  The enactment mentioned in the first and second columns of schedule 2 is repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.