Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934

Applications for harbour rates orders.

4.—(1) Any harbour authority and any person who uses or is interested in the use or development of any harbour may apply to the Minister for a harbour rates order in respect of such harbour.

(2) Every application for a harbour rates order shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain the prescribed particulars.

(3) Every harbour authority or person who applies under this section for a harbour rates order shall, when required by the Minister so to do, furnish to the Minister such further particulars as the Minister may require for the consideration of such application.

(4) The Minister may require any statement made in an application for a harbour rates order or made to the Minister in response to a request for particulars under the next preceding sub-section of this section to be verified in such manner as the Minister may require by some person having personal knowledge of such statement.

(5) If any harbour authority or person fails to furnish any particulars or any verification which he is required by the Minister under this section to furnish, the Minister may, on the ground of such failure and without prejudice to his discretion to make or refuse to make such order, refuse the application in relation to which such particulars or verification were so required.