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HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND PIERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 28

Exemption of vessels in Her Majesty's or the public service, from rates.

28. Nothing in this or the special Act contained shall extend to charge with
rates or duties, or to regulate or subject to any control, any vessel
belonging to or employed in the service of Her Majesty, or any member of the
royal family, or in the service of the Customs or Excise, or of the
Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, or the Commissioners of
Northern Lights, using the harbour, dock, or pier, and not conveying goods for
hire,..., or any of the officers or persons employed in the service of the
Admiralty, Ordnance, Customs, Excise,..., or their baggage, or any vessel or
goods being under seizure by the officers of revenue, or any naval,
victualling, or ordnance stores, or other stores or goods for the service of
or being the property of Her Majesty, or any troops landed upon or delivered
or disembarked from any of the quays of the harbour, dock, or pier, or their
baggage; but all such vessels, officers, or persons as aforesaid shall have
the free use of the harbour, dock, or pier, without any charge or rate being
made for using the same: Provided always, that if any person claim and take
the benefit of any such exemption as aforesaid without being entitled thereto,
he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#50].

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