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HARBOURS ACT 1814 - SECT 11

Penalty on persons casting ballast, rubbish, &c. into harbours or navigable rivers, &c.

11. And if the owner, master, or other person having the charge or command of
any private ship of war, transport, or other private or merchant ship or
vessel, lighter, barge, boat, or other craft whatsoever, or any person working
any quarry, mine, or pit near to the sea or to any such harbour, haven, or
navigable river as aforesaid, or any other person or persons whatsoever, shall
cast, throw, empty, or unlade, or cause or procure to be cast, thrown,
emptied, or unladen, either from or out of any such ship or vessel, lighter,
barge, boat, or other craft, or from the store, any ballast, stone, slate,
gravel, earth, rubbish, wreck, or filth, into any of such ports, roads,
roadsteads, harbours, havens, or navigable rivers of this kingdom as
aforesaid, so as to tend to the injury or obstruction of the navigation
thereof, or in any place or situation on shore where the same shall be liable
to be washed into the sea, or into any such ports, roads, roadsteads,
harbours, havens, or navigable rivers, either by ordinary or high tides, or by
storms or land floods, all and every such person and persons so offending
shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding the sum of
[#100], over and besides all expences which may be incurred in removing to a
proper place the said matters which may have been deposited contrary to the
provisions of this Act, such expences to be recoverable in such manner and
with such power of commitment on non-payment thereof as in cases of penalties
or forfeitures under this Act: Provided that nothing herein contained shall
extend or be construed to extend to the casting out, unlading, or throwing out
of any ship or vessel, lighter, barge, boat, or other craft, any stones,
rocks, bricks, lime, or other materials used or to be used in or towards the
building, repairing, or keeping in repair any quay, pier, wharf, wear, bridge,
or other building, or the banks or sides of any port, harbour, haven, channel,
or navigable river, or any materials for repairing any highway, anything
herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

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