Notwithstanding anything in any statutory provision of local application the Council may from time to time for the purpose of or in connection with the management of the Mile End Quay undertaking set apart and appropriate any part of the undertaking for the exclusive, partial or preferential use and accommodation of any particular trade, person, vessel or class or vessels, or goods, subject to the payment of such charges and subject to such terms, conditions and regulations as the Council may think fit.

No person or vessel shall make use of any part of the undertaking so set apart or appropriated without the consent of the Harbour Master or other duly authorised officer of the Council and the Harbour Master or, as the case may be, such officer, may order any person or vessel making use thereof without such consent to leave or be removed and the provisions of section 58 (Powers of harbour master as to mooring of vessels in harbour) of the 1847 Act shall extend and apply mutatis mutandis to and in relation to any such vessels.