PART 5MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Power to appropriate

25.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 33 (harbour, dock, and pier to be free to the public on payment of rates) of the 1847 Act or any other enactment, the Company may from time to time set apart or appropriate the whole or any part or parts of the lands, quays, berths, buildings, facilities, machinery or equipment comprised within Works Nos. 1 to 6 or upon which Works Nos. 1 to 6 are constructed and maintained for the exclusive, partial or preferential use and accommodation of any particular trade, person, activity, vessel or goods or any class of trade, person, activity, vessel or goods, subject to the payment of such charges and subject to such terms and conditions and regulations as the Company may think fit.

(2) No person or vessel shall make any use of any lands, quays, berths, buildings, facilities, machinery or equipment set apart or appropriated under this article without the consent of the harbour master or other duly authorised officer of the Company and the harbour master or such officer may order any person or vessel making use of such lands, quays, berths, buildings, facilities, machinery and equipment without such consent to be removed.

(3) The provisions of section 58 (powers of the harbour master as to the mooring of vessels) of the 1847 Act shall extend and apply to any such vessel.