Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1865

Power to remove vessels laid by as unfit for sea service.

14. Any vessel laid by or neglected as unfit for sea service shall not be permitted to lie within any part of a dockyard port specified in this behalf in any Order in Council under this Act; and the Queen’s harbour master may cause every such vessel to be removed from the part of the port so specified, and to be laid on some part of the strand or sea shore, or in some other place where the same may without injury to any person be placed.