Harbours Act, 1946

Appointment of commissioners.

32.—(1) For the purposes of enabling a harbour authority whose members have been removed from office to function during the period between the removal from office and the second Thursday in the month of October in the reconstitution year, the Minister shall from time to time appoint one or more than one person to be the commissioner or commissioners for the harbour authority.

(2) The Minister may—

(a) remove any commissioner for a harbour authority appointed under this section and appoint another person to be commissioner for the harbour authority in his place,

(b) when there is or are one or more than one commissioner appointed under this section for a harbour authority, appoint one or more than one person to be an additional commissioner or additional commissioners for the harbour authority,

(c) where there are two or more commissioners appointed under this section for a harbour authority, reduce the number of the commissioners and for that purpose remove one or more than one of the commissioners.

(3) In the subsequent sections of this Part of this Act, the word “commissioner” means a commissioner appointed under this section.