Harbours Act, 1947

Application of Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts, 1926 and 1940, in respect of harbour authorities specified in First Schedule.

3.—(1) In this section—

the expression “the Act of 1926” means the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926);

the expression “the Acts of 1926 and 1940” means the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts, 1926 and 1940, except subsections (1) and (2) of section 7 and section 11 of the Act of 1926;

the expression “scheduled harbour authority” means any harbour authority, being—

(a) a harbour authority specified in the First Schedule to this Act, or

(b) any body having control of a port or pier, in respect of which an order is made under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 146 of the Principal Act and which is declared by the said order to be a scheduled harbour authority for the purposes of this section.

(2) In the application (by virtue of subsection (4) of section 38 of the Principal Act) of the Acts of 1926 and 1940, in relation to any scheduled harbour authority or to any new authority which is created in pursuance of subsection (2) of section 6 of the Principal Act and which is the successor to a scheduled harbour authority, subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1926 shall be construed as if paragraphs (a) and (b) and the word “other” in paragraph (c) were deleted.