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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 653

Receipt for light dues.

653.(1) A general lighthouse authority may, within their area, with the
sanction of the Board of Trade, and after giving due notice of their
intention, direct a local lighthouse authority to lay down buoys, or to remove
or discontinue any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, or to make any variation in
the character of any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, or in the mode of exhibiting
lights in any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon.

(2) A local lighthouse authority shall not erect or place any lighthouse,
buoy, or beacon, or remove or discontinue any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, or
vary the character of any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, or the mode of
exhibiting lights in any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, without the sanction of
the general lighthouse authority.

(3) If a local lighthouse authority having power to erect, place, or maintain
any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, at any place within a lighthouse area, fail
to do so, or fail to comply with the direction of a general lighthouse
authority under this section with respect to any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon,
Her Majesty may, on the application of the general lighthouse authority, by
Order in Council, transfer any powers of the local lighthouse authority with
respect to that lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, including the power of levying
dues, to the general lighthouse authority.

(4) On the making of any Order in Council under this section, the powers
transferred shall be vested in the general lighthouse authority to whom they
are transferred, and the lighthouse, buoy, or beacon in respect of which the
Order is made, and the dues leviable in respect thereof, shall respectively be
subject to the same provisions as those to which a lighthouse, buoy, or beacon
provided by that general lighthouse authority under this Part of this Act, and
the light dues leviable under this Part of this Act are subject.

(5) Nothing in this section shall apply to local buoys and beacons placed or
erected for temporary purposes.

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