Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847

83 Byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named. U.K.

[F1 The undertakers may from time to time make such byelaws as they shall think fit for all or any of the following purposes; (that is to say,)

• For regulating the use of the harbour, dock, or pier:

• For regulating the exercise of the several powers vested in the harbour master:

• For regulating the admission of vessels into or near the harbour, dock, or pier, and their removal out of and from the same, and for the good order and government of such vessels whilst within the harbour or dock, or at or near the pier:

• For regulating the shipping and unshipping, landing, warehousing, stowing, depositing, and removing of all goods within the limits of the harbour, dock, or pier, and the premises of the undertakers:

• For regulating (with the consent of the Commissioners of her Majesty’s [F2 Customs and Excise] the hours during which the gates or entrances or outlets to the harbour, dock, or pier shall be open:

• For regulating the duties and conduct of all persons, as well the servants of the undertakers as others, not being officers of [F2 the Customs and Excise], who shall be employed in the harbour, dock, or pier, and the premises of the undertakers:

• For regulating the use of fires and lights within the harbour, dock, or pier, and the premises belonging thereto, and within any vessel being within the harbour or dock, or at or near the pier, or within the prescribed limits (if any):

• For preventing damage or injury to any vessel or goods within the harbour or dock, or at or near the pier, or on the premises of the undertakers:

• For regulating the use of the cranes, weighing machines, weights and measures belonging to the undertakers, and the duties and conduct of all weighers and meters employed by them:

• For regulating the duties and conduct of the porters and carriers employed on the premises of the undertakers and fixing the rates to be paid to them for carrying any goods, articles, or things from or to the same:

And the undertakers may from time to time, as they shall think fit, repeal or alter any such byelaws: Provided always, that such byelaws shall not be repugnant to the laws of that part of the United Kingdom where the same are to have effect, or the provisions of this or the special Act; and such byelaws shall be reduced into writing, and have affixed thereto the common seal of the undertakers, if they be a body corporate, or the signatures of the undertakers, or two of them, if they be not a body corporate, and, if affecting other persons than the officers or servants of the undertakers shall be confirmed and published as herein provided.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 83-90 cease to have effect in part (N.I.) (9.6.2010) by virtue of The River Bann Navigation Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/126), arts. 1(1), 4

F2 Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. 1909/197, (Rev. V, p. 465; 1909, p. 239) art. 10

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 83 extended (S.) by Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937 (c. 28), s. 11

S. 83 incorporated in part and for certain purposes (with modifications)(19.8.1996) by S.I. 1996/2103, art. 3(1)-(9)

C2 S. 83 incorporated (E.W.S.) (27.2.2008) by Port of Weston Harbour Revision Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/230), arts. 1, 6(1)

C3 S. 83 restricted (S.) (21.9.2019) by The Caledonian Maritime Assets (East Loch Tarbert) Harbour Revision Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/296), arts. 1(1), 25(4)(a) (with arts. 48, 49)