Harbours Act, 1946

PART II.

Members and Procedure of Harbour Authority.

Commencement of Part II.

6.—(1) This Part of this Act shall come into operation in relation to a harbour authority in such year as the Minister may by order appoint in respect of such harbour authority and as follows:

(a) so much of this Part of this Act as relates to the appointment, election and nomination of members of a harbour authority shall come into operation on the 7th day of July in the year so appointed,

(b) the remainder of this Part of this Act shall come into operation on the second Thursday in the month of October in the year so appointed.

(2) Where the Minister makes an order under this section in respect of a harbour authority which is a local authority, he shall include in the order, and it shall have effect accordingly, provisions creating on the second Thursday in the month of October in the year appointed by the order a new authority named in the order, transferring on that day to the new authority the harbour of the local authority, the management and control of such harbour and the assets, liabilities, officers and servants connected therewith and providing for any other matters supplemental or ancillary to the creation of the new authority, and the following provisions shall, in addition to those contained in the order, also have effect:

(a) the first appointment, election and nomination of the members of the new authority shall be carried out pursuant and subject to this Part of this Act as if the reference in the first column of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act to the local authority were a reference to the new authority,

(b) tonnage rates paid to the local authority during the year next preceding the year appointed by the order shall, in relation to such first election, be regarded as tonnage rates paid to the new authority during such preceding year,

(c) if the Minister appoints first members of the new authority under paragraph (b) of section 11 of this Act, he shall so appoint two persons who in his opinion are representative of the persons who have paid tonnage rates to the local authority,

(d) on and after the second Thursday in the month of October in the year appointed by the order, the reference in the first column of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act to the local authority shall be construed as a reference to the new authority.