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HARBOURS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 15

Harbour masters.

15.(1) A local harbour authority may employ a harbour master and such other
persons for the purposes of the harbour as it considers to be necessary.

(2) Where any person is employed by a local harbour authority in an office
referred to in sections 51 to 65 of the
Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847, so much of the provisions of those
sections as apply to that office shall apply to that person as if the harbour
had been constructed in pursuance of an Act which incorporated that Act,
this Act were the special Act for the purposes of that Act and the authority
were the undertakers for those purposes.

(3) In the application, by virtue of subsection (2), of section 52 of the said
Act of 1847 to a harbour master employed by a local harbour authority, that
section shall authorise a harbour master

(a)to give directions prohibiting the mooring of any vessel in any part of the
harbour specified by him;

(b)to impose terms and conditions upon which a pleasure-craft, hovercraft or
hydrofoil may enter the harbour or any part of the harbour specified by him;

(c)in an emergency, to give general directions under that section which apply
to all vessels or to any specified class of vessels.

(4) In the application, by virtue of subsection (1), of section 53 of the said
Act of 1847 to a harbour master employed by a local harbour authority, that
section shall be construed as authorising a harbour master to give directions
to the master of a vessel otherwise than in writing.

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