Charges

9.—(1) On and after the day of transfer the Company shall in the exercise of statutory powers and duties at the transferred harbour, have power to make such reasonable charges for its services and facilities as it thinks fit.

(2) This article does not apply in relation to—

(a) ship, passenger and goods dues; or

(b) charges ascribable to the running of a ferry service in or from a harbour;

and does not authorise the making of any charge in a case where an enactment relating to the transferred harbour expressly provides for freedom from charges or otherwise prohibits the making of any charge.