Harbours Act, 1946

Charges in respect of goods permitted to remain on quays or other places.

85.—(1) A harbour authority may make in respect of goods, being goods which they permit to remain on any quay or other place within the limits of their harbour after the expiration of the time for removal of the goods specified in the bye-laws of the harbour authority, charges on the owner of the goods in accordance with such scale of charges as from time to time they may fix with the consent of the Minister.

(2) Where a harbour authority were, immediately before the passing of this Act, making charges authorised by law in respect of goods permitted by them to remain on any quay or other place within the limits of their harbour after the expiration of the time for removal of the goods specified in the bye-laws of the harbour authority, such charges shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section as having been duly fixed under that subsection.