Harbours Act 1964

Section 2.

SCHEDULE 1 Incidental Provisions with respect to the National Ports Council

1 The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

2 (1) Each member of the Council shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of his appointment, but notwithstanding anything in those terms he may at any time resign his office by notice in writing.

(2) A person who has held office as a member of the Council shall be eligible for re-appointment.

3 The Council may act notwithstanding a vacancy amongst the members of the Council, and no act of the Council shall be deemed to be invalid by reason only of a defect in the appointment of any of the members.

4 In the case of an equality of votes at a meeting of the Council the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

5 The Council may appoint such committees consisting of members of the Council as the Council think fit and may delegate to a committee appointed under this paragraph any of their powers or duties.

6 Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, the Council may determine their own quorum and procedure and the quorum and procedure of committees appointed by them under the last foregoing paragraph.

7 Part II of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1957 (which specifies certain commissions, tribunals and other bodies all members of which are disqualified under that Act) shall, in its application to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, be amended by inserting, after the entry relating to the National Insurance Advisory Committee, the words " The National Ports Council ".

8 (1) The Council shall appoint a secretary and may appoint such other officers, and such servants, as the Council may determine.

(2) The Council shall—

(a) pay to their officers and servants such remuneration as they may determine, and

(b) as regards any officers or servants in whose case it may be determined by the Council with the approval of the Minister so to do, pay to or in respect of them such pensions, or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not) as may be so determined.

9 The application of the seal of the Council shall be authenticated by the signatures of the chairman of the Council or some other member thereof authorised by the Council to authenticate the application of the seal thereof and of the secretary or some person authorised by the Council to act in his stead in that behalf.