Byelaws, etc.
6.—(1) The Company may make byelaws for the Port for the purposes mentioned in section 83 of the Harbours, Docks and Clauses Act 1847(1), and that section is hereby incorporated in this order.
(2) On and from the operative date any byelaw, regulation, licence or consent made, issued or granted by BW in relation to the Port and in force immediately before that date shall, notwithstanding the making of this Order, continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted by the Company.
(3) Subsections (3), (4), (5) to (8) and (11) of section 236 and section 238 of the Local Government Act 1972(a) (which relate to the procedure for making, and evidence of, byelaws) shall apply to any byelaws made by the Company by virtue of this article as if the Company were a local authority and the secretary of the Company were a proper officer of a local authority; but, subject to paragraph (4), the Secretary of State may confirm the byelaws with such modifications as she thinks fit.
(4) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make a modification which appears to her to be substantial, she shall inform the Company and require it to take any steps she considers necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification, and shall not confirm the byelaws until such period has elapsed as she thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Company and by other persons who have been informed of it.