Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934

Amendment of section 18 of the Pilotage Act, 1913.

9.—(1) The power of revoking, varying, or adding to bye-laws conferred on and vested in the Minister by section 18 of the Pilotage Act, 1913 , as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), may, in relation to any bye-laws fixing pilotage dues, be exercised by the Minister on his own motion notwithstanding that no such representation as is mentioned in sub-section (1) of the said section 18 has been made to the Minister in respect of such bye-law, but subject to the other provisions of the said section.

(2) In this section the expression “pilotage dues” has the same meaning as it has in the Pilotage Act, 1913 .