Harbours Act, 1946

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Lighters, ferries, etc.

53.—(1) A harbour authority may, at their discretion, issue to the owner of a lighter, ferry-boat or other small boat which such owner proposes to use or ply for hire habitually in the harbour of the harbour authority a licence authorising such use or plying for hire.

(2) A harbour authority may charge on a licence under this section such fee as they consider reasonable and may at any time revoke the licence.

(3) Where a lighter, ferry-boat or other small boat is habitually used or plied for hire in a harbour and a licence under this section is not for the time being in force in respect thereof, the owner thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this section and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(4) Subsection (3) of this section shall not apply to a ferry operated under statute, charter or prescriptive right.