Any loans which the Minister makes under section . . . F1 11 of this Act shall be repaid to him at such times and by such methods, and interest thereon shall be paid to him at such rates and at such times, as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, from time to time direct.

Any loans which the Welsh Ministers make under section 11 of this Act shall be repaid to them at such times and by such methods, and interest thereon shall be paid to them at such rates and at such times, as they may from time to time direct.

The Treasury may issue out of the F2National Loan Fund to the Minister such sums as are necessary to enable him to make loans under section . . . F1 11 of this Act.

Such sums as are necessary to enable the Welsh Ministers to make loans under section 11 of this Act may be issued to them out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

Any sums received by the Minister under subsection (1) of this section shall be paid into the F2National Loan Fund . . . F4

Any sums received by the Welsh Ministers under subsection (1A) of this section shall be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund.

The Minister shall, as respects each financial year, prepare in such form and manner as the Treasury may direct an account of sums issued to him under this section and of the sums to be paid into the F2National Loan Fund under subsection (4) of this section and of the disposal by him of those sums respectively, and send it to the Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of November following the year; and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the account and lay copies of it, together with his report, before each House of Parliament.

The Welsh Ministers shall, as respects each financial year, prepare an account of sums issued to them under this section and of the sums to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund under subsection (4A) and of the disposal by them of those sums respectively, and send it to the Auditor General for Wales not later than the end of November following the year; and the Auditor General for Wales shall examine, certify and report on the account and lay copies of it, together with his report, before the National Assembly for Wales.

A person who desires to question any such order as follows, namely, a harbour revision or empowerment order F70(not being one confirmed by Act of Parliament under section F874 or 6 of the M1Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945, or under section 2(4), as read with section 10, of that Act)F6or an order under section 15A of this Act, on the ground that there was no power to make the order or that a requirement of this Act was not complied with in relation to the order, F7... may, within six weeks from the date on which the order becomes operative F7... make an application for the purpose to the High Court or the Court of Session, as the case may be.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Except as provided by this section, a harbour revision or empowerment order F9, or an order under section 15A of this Act, shall not, either before or after it is made, be questioned in any legal proceedings whatever, F7....

The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to a harbour reorganisation scheme confirmed F10or made by the Minister as they apply to a harbour revision order, with the substitution F10, in relation to a harbour reorganisation scheme confirmed by the Secretary of State, for references to the making of the order and to its being made of references respectively to the confirmation of the scheme and to its being confirmed.

In relation to proceedings in Scotland, subsections (1A)(a) F7... of this section shall have effect as if the words “by interim order” were omitted.

In the case of an order falling within subsection (7), an environmental organisation is to be deemed to have sufficient interest to make an application under subsection (1).

An order is within this subsection if, in relation to the proposed application relating to the project authorised by the order, the Scottish Ministers decided that an environmental impact assessment was required and informed the applicant accordingly under paragraph 6(2)(a) of Schedule 3.

For the purposes of subsections (6) and (7), an “environmental organisation” is a non-governmental organisation promoting environmental protection.

In the case of an order falling within subsection (7), an environmental organisation is F105... to be deemed to have sufficient interest to make an application under subsection (1).

An order is within this subsection if, in relation to the proposed application relating to the project authorised by the order, the Secretary of State decided that an environmental impact assessment was required and informed the applicant accordingly under paragraph 6(2)(a) of Schedule 3.

For the purposes of subsections (6) and (7), an “environmental organisation” is a non-governmental organisation promoting environmental protection.

Section 17D(3) applies this section to closure orders.

The power to make an order as to costs under section 250(5) of the Local Government Act 1972 as applied by subsection (1) above shall be exercisable not only where the inquiry or hearing takes place but also where arrangements are made for it but it does not take place.

The power to make an award as to expenses under section 210(8) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as applied by subsection (2) above shall be exercisable not only where the inquiry or hearing takes place but also where arrangements are made for it but it does not take place.

Any document required or authorised by this Act to be given to or served on any person may be given or served either by delivering it to that person, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by post by means of the recorded delivery service.

For the purposes of subsection (1A)(c) “specified” means specified by the recipient in a written statement given for the purposes of paragraph (a) of that subsection.

A document given or served on a recipient in accordance with subsection (1A) must be in a form sufficiently permanent to be used for subsequent reference.

Where a document is given to or served on a recipient in accordance with subsection (1A), the document is deemed, unless the contrary is proved, to have been given to or served on the recipient at the time at which the electronic communication is transmitted.

But if the transmission is made outside the recipient’s normal business hours, the document is to be taken to have been given to or served on the recipient on the next working day.

A statement under subsection (1A) may be withdrawn by giving a written notice to the person to whom the statement was made.

Any document required or authorised to be given to or served on a body corporate may be given to or served on the secretary or clerk of that body.

For the purposes of this section and of F29section 7 of the M6Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section, the proper address of any person to or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or served shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk of a corporation, be that of the registered or principal office of the corporation, and in any other case be the last-known address of the person to be served, subject, however, to this qualification, that, where the person to or on whom the document is to be given or served has, in accordance with arrangements agreed, furnished an address for the giving or service of the document, being an address in the United Kingdom, his proper address for the purposes aforesaid shall be the address furnished.

If the name or the address of any owner, lessee or occupier of land to or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or served cannot after reasonable inquiry be ascertained by the authority, body or person seeking to give or serve the document, the document may be given or served by addressing it to the person to or on whom it is to be given or served by the description of “owner”, “lessee” or “occupier” of the land (describing it) to which the document relates, and by delivering it to some responsible person resident or appearing to be resident on the premises, or, if there is no such person to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous part of the premises.

In this section —

• “electronic address” includes any number or address used for the purpose of receiving electronic communications;

• “electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;

• “relevant authority” means—

  1. a

     the Secretary of State;

  2. b

     the Welsh Ministers;

  3. c

     the Scottish Ministers;

• “working day” means any day other than—

  1. a

     a Saturday or Sunday,

  2. b

     Christmas Day or Good Friday, or

  3. c

     a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.

Where under this Act a document is required to be served on an owner of land, and the land is ecclesiastical property, a copy of the document shall be served on the F66Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated.

F67Where any ecclesiastical property is vested in the incumbent of a benefice which is vacant, it shall be treated for the purposes of an application to the Minister or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for any of the following orders in which provision for the compulsory acquisition of the property is proposed to be included, namely, a harbour revision order, a harbour empowerment order, . . . F31 and of a compulsory acquisition of the property in pursuance of a provision for the compulsory acquisition thereof included in any such order, as being vested in the F66Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated, and (in the case of such an acquisition as aforesaid) any notice to treat shall be served accordingly.

Any sum which, in pursuance of a provision included in an order in compliance with the last foregoing subsection, is paid to the F66Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated with reference to any land shall, if the land is not consecrated, be applied by F68it for the purposes for which the proceeds of a sale by agreement of the fee simple of the land would be applicable under any enactment or Measure authorising such a sale or disposing of the proceeds of such a sale, and if the land is consecrated, be applied by F68itF68as if the land had been sold under the Pastoral Measure 1983.

In this section the expression “ecclesiastical property” means land belonging to an ecclesiastical benefice of the Church of England, or being or forming part of a church subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of any diocese of the Church of England or the site of a church so subject, or being or forming part of a burial ground so subject.

On coming into operation of this section, for the definition of “marine work” in section 31(1) of the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937 there shall be substituted the following definition—

Where a harbour owing to the operation of the foregoing subsection has ceased to be a marine work the provisions of the two next following subsections shall have effect in relation to that harbour.

Sections 16 and 18 of the M7Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937 (deficiency in revenue and levying of rates to meet deficiency) shall continue to apply as they apply to a marine work; and in relation to any works duly authorised for that harbour before the coming into operation of this section, Parts II, III and IV of the said Act of 1937 shall continue so to apply.

Until the coming into operation of an order under this Act of corresponding effect to any provision of Parts II, III and IV of the said Act of 1937, that provision shall continue to apply.

An interest in land in which there is a Crown or Duchy interest may, if the appropriate authority consent to the acquisition thereof, be acquired compulsorily by virtue of this Act, and a power (other than one to acquire land compulsorily) may, if the appropriate authority consent to its being so conferred, be conferred by a harbour revision or empowerment order in relation to land in which there is a Crown or Duchy interest.

In this section “Crown or Duchy interest” means an interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or of the Duchy of Lancaster, or to the Duchy of Cornwall, or belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, and “the appropriate authority” has the same meaning as in F32subsection (2) of section 293 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; and the provisions of subsection (3) of that section as to the determination of questions shall apply for the purposes of this section.

In subsection (3), “relevant person”, in relation to any land to which section 90B(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 applies, means the person who manages that land.

If any question arises as to what authority is the appropriate authority in relation to any land for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection, that question shall be referred to the Treasury, whose decision shall be final.

Any power conferred by this Act on the Minister, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State to make an order, or on the Minister to make regulations, shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

A statutory instrument containing an order under section F34... , 9(1), F3515A, 18(7), F34... or 60 of this Act or regulations under section 19, F34... or 42 thereof shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

A power of the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers to make an order under section 40A is exercisable by statutory instrument.

Subsection (4) below applies to a harbour revision order or harbour empowerment order which falls within subsection (2) below.

In subsection (2) above and subsection (5) below, references to a “national development” are to any development (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997) for the time being designated under section 3A(4)(b) of that Act as a national development.

The order is subject to the affirmative procedure.

Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against accordingly.

In the foregoing subsection, the expression “director” in relation to a body corporate established by or under an enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership an industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by the members thereof, means a member of that body corporate.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

• F37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• F72“Act” means an Act of Parliament or an Act of the Scottish Parliament;

• “the Boards” means F38. . . F39. . . the British Waterways Board F40and includes F41. . ., the Scottish Transport Group and any subsidiary within the meaning of the M8Transport Act 1968 of any of those Boards or of that . . . F41 Group;

• F42“bridleway”, in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 and, in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in Part III of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

• “charges” includes fares, rates, tolls and dues of every description;

• F91“closure order” has the meaning given by section 17A;

• “the Consolidated Fund” means the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom;

• F37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• “district board” has the same meaning as in the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) M9(Scotland) Act 1951;

• “dock” means a dock used by sea-going ships;

• F43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• F72“enactment” includes an Act of the Scottish Parliament or an instrument made under such an Act;

• “first local advertisement” means, in relation to the publication of a notice as respects a harbour or group of harbours, the first publication of the notice in a local newspaper circulating in the locality where the harbour or group is situate;

• “fish” includes molluscs and crustaceans;

• “fishery harbour” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the M10Sea Fish Industry Act 1951;

• F44“footpath”, in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 and, in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;

• “functions” includes powers and duties;

• “Gazette and local advertisement” means, in relation to an application, proposed order, order or scheme relating to a harbour or group of harbours, publication in the Gazette and, in each of two successive weeks, in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality where the harbour or group is situate;

• “the Gazette” means—

  1. a

     in relation to publication of a notice as respects a harbour or group of harbours in England or Wales, the London Gazette; and

  2. b

     in relation to the publication of a notice as respects a harbour or group of harbours in Scotland, the Edinburgh Gazette;

• “goods” includes fish, livestock and animals of all descriptions;

• “harbour”, except where used with reference to a local lighthouse authority, means any harbour, whether natural or artificial, and any port, haven, estuary, tidal or other river or inland waterway navigated by sea-going ships, and includes a dock, a wharf, and in Scotland a . . . F45boatslip being a marine work, and, where used with reference to such an authority, has the F46same meaning as in the Merchant Shippping Act 1995

• “harbour authority” means any person in whom are vested under this Act, by another Act or by an order or other instrument (except a provisional order) made under another Act or by a provisional order powers or duties of improving, maintaining or managing a harbour;

• “harbour empowerment order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 16(4) of this Act;

• “harbour land” means land adjacent to a harbour and occupied wholly or mainly for the purposes of activities there carried on;

• “harbour operations” means,—

  1. a

     the marking or lighting of a harbour or any part thereof;

  2. b

     the berthing or dry docking of a ship;

  3. c

     the warehousing, sorting, weighing or handling of goods on harbour land or at a wharf;

  4. d

     the movement of goods or passengers within the limits within which the person engaged in improving, maintaining or managing a harbour has jurisdiction or on harbour land;

  5. e

     in relation to a harbour (which expression for the purposes of this paragraph does not include a wharf)—

     1. i

        the towing, or moving of a ship which is in or is about to enter or has recently left the harbour;

     2. ii

        the loading or unloading of goods, or embarking or disembarking of passengers, in or from a ship which is in the harbour or the approaches thereto;

     3. iii

        the lighterage or handling of goods in the harbour; and

  6. f

     in relation to a wharf,—

     1. i

        the towing or moving of a ship to or from the wharf;

     2. ii

        the loading or unloading of goods, or the embarking or disembarking of passengers, at the wharf in or from a ship;

• “harbour revision order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 14(1) of this Act;

• “harbour reorganisation scheme” has the meaning assigned to it by section 18(1) of this Act;

• “improvement committee” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(1) of the M11Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958;

• “land” includes land covered by water;

• F47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• “lighthouse” has the F46same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act1995

• “local lighthouse authority” means any person having by law or usage authority over local lighthouses, buoys or beacons; C7

• “marine work” F48means a harbour or boatslip in Scotland (other than a harbour or boatslip which is vested in any of the bodies specified in Schedule 3 to the M12Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937 or which is vested in any of the Boards other than the Scottish Transport Group or a subsidiary within the meaning of F74section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006 of that Group);

  1. a

     which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State and the Minister, is principally used or required for the fishing industry, or

  2. b

     which, being situated in one of the following F48areas, namely, the Highland Region, the islands areas of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles or the Argyll district other than the former burgh of Rothesay and the former district of Bute is, in the opinion of the Secretary of State and the Minister, principally used or required for the fishing or agricultural industries or the maintenance of communications between any place in those F48areas counties and any other place in Scotland;

• F90“master”, in relation to a ship, means the person who has command or charge of the ship for the time being;

• “the Minister” means F49the Secretary of State for Transport;

• “owner”, in relation to any land, other than land in Scotland, means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the land, whether in possession or in reversion, and includes also a person holding or entitled to the rents and profits of the land under a lease or agreement the unexpired term of which exceeds three years, and in relation to any land in Scotland—

  1. a

     unless the land is held on a long lease, means F62... the owner of the land;

  2. b

     if the land is held on a long lease, means the lessee under that lease; and

  3. c

     includes any other person who under the Lands Clauses Acts would be entitled to sell and convey or assign the land or the interest of lessee under such a long lease, as the case may be, to the promoters of an undertaking;

  and “long lease” means a lease which has been, or is capable of being, F92registered in the Land Register of Scotland or recorded in the General Register of Sasines under the M13Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857;

• “plant or equipment” includes vessels;

• “port”, where used with reference to a local lighthouse authority, includes place;

• “provisional order” means an order confirmed by an Act, by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in pursuance of section 2(3)(2) of the M14Fishery Harbours Act 1915 or by the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 5(5)(ii) of the M15Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937;

• F104“reserved trust port” has the meaning given in section 32 of the Wales Act 2017;

• F65“restricted byway” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;

• F50“river purification authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 17 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951;

• “river works duties” means duties imposed by an Act to do things of the kinds authorised to be done in exercise of river works powers;

• “river works powers” means powers conferred by F51section 17 of the M16Land Drainage Act 1976 or corresponding provisions of a local Act F52or under section 67 or by section 69 of the M17Water Resources Act 1963 or by an improvement order under section 1 of the M18Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958 or by section 13 as read with section 41 of the M19Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868 F63... or by any local enactment relating to Scotland which confers powers corresponding to the powers conferred by an improvement order or which contains provisions corresponding to the provisions of the said Acts of 1868 F64...;

• “ship”, where used as a noun, includes every description of vessel used in navigation, seaplanes on the surface of the water and F53hovercraft within the meaning of the M20Hovercraft Act 1968;

• “ship, passenger and goods dues” means, in relation to a harbour, charges (other than any exigible by virtue of section 29 of this Act) of any of the following kinds, namely,—

  1. a

     charges in respect of any ship for entering, using or leaving the harbour, including charges made on the ship in respect of marking or lighting the harbour;

  2. b

     charges for any passengers embarking or disembarking at the harbour (but not including charges in respect of any services rendered or facilities provided for them); and

  3. c

     charges in respect of goods brought into, taken out of, or carried through the harbour by ship (but not including charges in respect of work performed, services rendered or facilities provided in respect of goods so brought, taken or carried);

• “statutory duties” means, in relation to a harbour authority, duties vested in them under this Act, by another Act or by an order or other instrument (except a provisional order) made under another Act or by a provisional order, other than river works duties;

• “statutory powers” means, in relation to a harbour authority, powers vested in them under this Act, by another Act or by an order or other instrument (except a provisional order) made under another Act or by a provisional order, other than river works powers;

• “statutory provision” means a provision, whether of a general or a special nature, contained in, or in a document made or issued under, this Act or any Act (whether of a general or of a special nature) other than this Act;

• “wharf” means any wharf, quay, pier, jetty or other place at which sea-going ships can ship or unship goods or embark or disembark passengers.

References in this Act to a harbour which is being improved, maintained or managed by a harbour authority in the exercise and performance of statutory powers and duties shall be construed as references to a harbour which is being improved, maintained or managed by such an authority in the exercise of statutory powers, in the performance of statutory duties or in the exercise and performance of statutory powers and statutory duties, and cognate references shall be similarly construed.

Any reference in this Act to a buoy or beacon shall be construed as including a reference to any other mark or sign of the sea.

Any reference in this Act (elsewhere than in the foregoing provisions of this section or in section 39) to ship, passenger and goods dues shall be construed as including a reference to charges payable by persons using a ferry which is a marine work.

Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any other Act.

Any reference in this Act to Canal & River Trust shall be construed as including a reference to any company that is a subsidiary (within the meaning of the Companies Act 2006) of Canal & River Trust.

The appropriate Minister may, subject to the provisions of this section, by order repeal or amend any provision relating to a harbour which is contained in a local Act passed before this Act or in a provisional order confirmed or made before this Act or any provision in the M21Milford Haven Conservancy Act 1958, where it appears to him that the provision is inconsistent with, or has become unnecessary in consequence of, any provision of this Act.

The appropriate Minister shall not make an order under this section repealing or amending any provision in a local Act the Bill for which was promoted, or in a provisional order which was applied for, by a harbour authority or by any body who became a harbour authority by virtue of the Act or order or whose functions under the Act or order have became exercisable by a harbour authority, except on the application of that authority.

Before making an order under this section the appropriate Minister shall consult with any harbour authority who appear to him to be concerned, not being an authority by whom an application for the making of the order was made.

An order under this section may contain such transitional, supplemental or incidental provisions as appear to the appropriate Minister to be expedient.

In this section “the appropriate Minister”, except in the case of the repeal or amendment of a provision relating to a fishery harbour or marine work, means the Minister, in the case of the repeal or amendment of a provision relating to a fishery harbour means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and in the case of the repeal or amendment of a provision relating to a marine work means the Secretary of State.

This Act may be cited as the Harbours Act 1964.

This Act . . . F56 shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F57

Sections 26 to 40 of this Act, and the last foregoing subsection, shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may by order appoint.