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Exemption of vessels in her Majesty’s or the public service, from rates.
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28. Nothing in this or the special Act contained shall extend to charge with rates or duties, or to regulate or subject to any control, any vessel belonging to or employed in the service of her Majesty, or any member of the royal family, or in the service of the Customs or Excise, or of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, or the Commissioners of Northern Lights, using the harbour, dock, or pier and not conveying goods for hire, or any packet boat or post office packet, being a packet boat or post office packet as defined under the provisions of any Act relating to the Post Office, or any post office bag of letters conveyed by any such packet boat or packet or by any other vessel whatsoever, or any of the officers or persons employed in the service of the Admiralty, Ordnance, Customs Excise, or Post Office, or their baggage, or any vessel or goods being under seizure by the officers of revenue, or any naval, victualling, or ordnance stores, or other stores or goods for the service of or being the property of her Majesty, or any troops landed upon or delivered or disembarked from any of the quays of the harbour, dock, or pier, or their baggage; but all such vessels, officers, or persons as aforesaid shall have the free use of the harbour, dock, or pier, without any charge or rate being made for using the same: Provided always, that if any person claim and take the benefit of any such exemption as aforesaid without being entitled thereto, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
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