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HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND PIERS CLAUSES ACT 1847

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Incorporation with special Act.
   2.      ""The special Act'':
   3.      Interpretations in this and the special Act:
   4.      Short title.
   5.      Incorporation of parts of this Act in other Acts.
   6.      Taking of lands for purposes of special Act to be subject to Lands
           Clauses Acts.
   7.      Correction of errors and omissions in plans, &c.
   8.      Works not to be proceeded with until plans of all alterations
           authorized by Parliament have been deposited.
   9.      Chief clerks, &c. to receive plans of alterations, and allow
           inspedtion.
   10.     Certified copies of plans and alterations, &c. to be evidence.
   11.     Undertakers, in constructing harbour, &c. not to deviate beyond
           limits defined upon plans.
   12.     Consent of Commissioners of Woods, &c. and of the Admiralty, as to
           works on foreshore, &c.
   13.     Alterations in plans to be approved of by the Admiralty and the
           Commissioners of Woods, &c.
   14.     Undertakers to erect watch-house, boat-house, huts, and weighing
           materials, for custom house officers, and keep the same in repair.
   15.     Penalty on undertakers neglecting to repair or provide watch-house,
           &c.
   16.     Life-boat, mortar, and rockets, to be provided by undertakers.
   17.     Penalty for not providing life-boat, &c.
   18.     Self-registering tide gauge and barometer to be provided by
           undertakers.
   19.     Penalty for not providing tide gauge, &c.
   20.     Additional land required for extraordinary purposes.
   21.     Warehouses, cranes, &c.
   22.     Working of cranes.
   23.     Power to lease wharfs, warehouses, &c.
   24.     Quays not to be deemed legal until approved by Treasury and
           Customs.
   27.     Tonnage of vessels, how to be ascertained.
   28.     Exemption of vessels in Her Majesty's or the public service, from
           rates.
   29.     Vessels returning from stress of weather.
   31.     Vessels, &c. of countries with which treaties of reciprocity exist
           to be charged as British vessels, &c.
   32.     Power to compound for tolls payable in respect of passenger vessels,
           or by persons using harbour, &c. for purposes of business or
           pleasure.
   33.     Harbour, dock, and pier to be free to the public on payment of
           rates.
   34.     Collector may enter vessels to ascertain rates payable.
   35.     Master to report arrival of vessel.
   36.     Master to produce certificate of registry.
   37.     Masters of vessels to give names of consignees, and accounts of
           goods intended to be unshipped, &c.
   38.     Penalty on masters giving no account or notice, or a false account
           or notice.
   39.     Shippers to give an account of goods intended to be shipped.
   40.     In case of dispute goods to be weighed or measured.
   41.     Expences of weighing or measuring goods.
   42.     Rates on goods, when payable.
   43.     Penalty for evading payment of rates.
   44.     Recovery of tonnage rates by distraint and sale of ship and tackle.
   45.     Recovery of rates on goods by distraint and sale, or by action.
   46.     Disputes concerning rates or charges occasioned by distress.
   48.     Collector of customs may withhold a clearance to any vessel until
           certificate is produced that the rates are paid, &c.
   49.     Undertakers to keep accounts of rates and vessels, &c.
   50.     Annual account to be prepared by undertakers.
   51.     Appointment of harbour master (including dock or pier master).
   52.     Powers of harbour master.
   53.     Section 53
   54.     Penalty on harbour master, &c. for misbehaviour.
   55.     Penalty on persons offering bribes to officers, and on officers
           taking bribes.
   56.     Harbour master may remove wrecks, &c.
   57.     Unserviceable vessels to be altogether removed from harbour.
   58.     Powers of harbour master as to mooring of vessels in harbour.
   59.     Vessels entering harbour to be dismantled.
   60.     Vessels to lower sails when entering dock.
   61.     Vessels to have hawsers, &c. fixed to moorings.
   62.     Penalty for wilfully cutting moorings.
   63.     Penalty for placing, &c. vessels near the entrance of harbour or
           dock, &c. without permission.
   64.     Vessels to be removed for the purpose of repairing harbour or dock,
           on notice.
   65.     Harbour master may remove any vessel, if the master thereof neglect
           or refuse so to do.
   66.     Discharge of cargo and removal of vessels.
   67.     Penalty on wharfingers giving undue preference in loading or
           unloading goods.
   68.     Removal of goods from the quays, &c. after lying there longer than
           allowed by byelaws.
   69.     Combustible matter on quays, &c. to be removed.
   70.     Combustibles to be guarded during the night.
   71.     Penalties for offences.
   72.     Power to enter ship and search for and extinguish fires or lights.
   74.     Owner and master of vessel answerable for damage to works.
   75.     Ascertainment and recovery of amount of damage.
   76.     Owner paying damages or penalty or costs for act of servant may
           recover from him.
   77.     Undertakers to lay down buoys.
   78.     Lighthouses, beacons, or sea-marks not to be exhibited or altered
           without sanction.
   79.     Special constables for harbours, &c.
   80.     Dismissal of constables.
   81.     Appointment, &c. of meters and weighers.
   82.     Meters and weighers licensed by undertakers or Customs only to be
           employed.
   83.     Byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named.
   84.     Section 84
   85.     Byelaws affecting persons other than the undertakers, &c. not to
           come into operation until confirmed.
   86.     Notice of application for confirmation of byelaws to be given in
           one or more newspapers.
   87.     Copy of proposed byelaws to be open to inspection.
   88.     Publication of byelaws.
   89.     Byelaws, when confirmed and published, to be binding on all parties.
   90.     Proof of making and publication of byelaws.
   92.     Railways Clauses Acts, as to damages, &c. to be incorporated with
           this and the special Act.
   97.     Copies of special Act.
   98.     Penalty on undertakers failing to keep or deposit such copies.
   99.     Saving as to rights of Crown, Admiralty, &c.
   100.    Saving as to Revenue Departments.
   102.    Saving as to Trinity House, &c.
   103.    Saving as to future Acts.


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