With respect to any special Act that may be passed after the end of the present session of Parliament, the following sections of the M1Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847, and all provisions relative thereto in that Act or in any such future special Act contained, shall be read and construed as if the Board of Trade were named in the said sections instead of the Admiralty; namely, sections twelve, thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, and nineteen.

With respect to any special Act that may be passed after the end of the present session of Parliament, section seventeen of the M2Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, and the M3Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845, respectively, and all provisions relative thereto in the said Acts or in any such future special Act contained, shall be read and construed as if the Board of Trade were named in the said sections instead of the Admiralty.

With respect to applications made under the M4Tramways (Ireland) Act 1860, section forty-one of that Act shall be read as if the Board of Trade were therein named instead of the Admiralty.

Provided always, that where it appears to the Admiralty that the interests of Her Majesty’s Naval Service require that the whole or any part of any harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river in, on, or adjoining to which there is or shall be any of Her Majesty’s dockyards, victualling yards, steam factory yards, arsenals, or naval stations, should be excepted, either entirely or in some respects out of the operation of the last foregoing section, the Admiralty may give notice in writing to the Board of Trade that any such harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river as aforesaid, or such part thereof as is in the notice specified, is to be deemed so excepted, either entirely or in the respects therein mentioned; and every such notice shall be published by the Admiralty in the London, Edinburgh, or F3Belfast Gazette (according as the place affected may be in England, Scotland, or Ireland); and thereupon the harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river to which such notice relates, or the part thereof therein specified, shall, either entirely or in the respects therein mentioned, as the case may require, be and remain as if this Act had not been passed; but any such notice may be from time to time varied or at any time revoked by a like notice published in like manner.

In each year, not later than the seventh day of January, the Board of Trade shall furnish to the Admiralty a list of all applications for provisional orders under the last-mentioned Acts then pending, with a short statement of the nature of the works for the construction whereof powers are sought by such proposed provisional orders respectively.

The following sections of the M6General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, Amendment Act, and all provisions relative thereto in any other Act or in any provisional order of the Board of Trade contained, shall be read and construed as if the Board of Trade were named in the said sections instead of the Admiralty; namely, sections seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven.

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On the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the harbours specified in the schedule to this Act, and all breakwaters, piers, jetties, quays, wharves, lighthouses, roads, approaches, works, and buildings belonging thereto, and the ground and soil thereof, and all lands and hereditaments acquired for the purposes thereof, so far as on that day such harbours and property shall be vested in the Admiralty or in any commissioner for the execution of any Act for any estate or interest, but not further or otherwise, shall be transferred to and vested in the Board of Trade in trust for Her Majesty, for the public service; and the enactments mentioned in the said schedule, and every other enactment relating to or affecting the same harbours shall be read and construed as if the Board of Trade were therein named instead of the Admiralty or instead of any such commissioner, as the case may be.

A harbour authority may, subject and according to the provisions of the last-mentioned Act, borrow money to any amount whatever, notwithstanding any limitation of the amount to be borrowed by such harbour authority contained in any special Act; but nothing in the M7Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act 1861, or in this Act, shall be deemed to give to any loan made or to be made under the M8Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act 1861, equality, as to order of charge or of payment of principal or interest, with any loan made or to be made under any special Act, except only as to such portion (if any) of the monies raised under the M9Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act 1861, as might have been raised under the special Act solely, or to repeal or alter any provision of any special Act whereby any harbour authority being a company is restricted from borrowing until a definite portion of capital is subscribed for or taken or paid up.