PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1907 - SECT 94 Power to license pleasure boats.

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1907 - SECT 94

Power to license pleasure boats.

94.(1) The [district council] may grant upon such terms and conditions as they
may think fit licences for pleasure boats and pleasure vessels to be let for
hire or to be used for carrying passengers for hire, and to the [persons in
charge of or navigating] such boats and vessels, and may charge annual fees
for such licences, for a boat or vessel a fee not exceeding the sum of [25p],
and for a boatman or other person a fee not exceeding the sum of [5p].

(2) Any such licence may be granted for such period as the [district council]
may think fit, and may be suspended or revoked by the [council] whenever they
shall deem such suspension or revocation to be necessary or desirable in the
interests of the public: Provided that the existence of the power to suspend
or revoke the licence shall be plainly set forth in the licence itself.

(3) No person shall let for hire any pleasure boat or pleasure vessel not so
licensed or at any time during the suspension of the licence for the boat or
vessel, nor shall any person carry or permit to be carried passengers for hire
in any pleasure boat [or a vessel unless

(a)the boat or vessel is so licensed and the licence is not suspended; and

(b)the person in charge of the boat or vessel and any other person navigating
it is so licensed and his licence is not suspended and the conditions of his
licence are complied with.]

(4) A licence under this section shall not be required for any boat or vessel
duly licensed by or under any regulations of the Board of Trade [or for a
person in charge for navigating such a boat or vessel.]

(5) No person shall carry or permit to be carried in any pleaure boat or
pleasure vessel a greater number of passengers for hire than shall be
specified in the licence applying to such boat or vessel, and every owner of
any such boat or vessel shall, before permitting the same to be used for
carrying passengers for hire, paint or cause to be painted, in letters and
figures not less than one inch in height and three-quarters of an inch in
breadth, on a conspicuous part of the said boat or vessel, his own name and
also the number of persons which it is licensed to carry, in the form
"Licensed to carry persons."

(6) Every person who shall act in contravention of the provisions of this
section shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#50] [so,
however, that a person shall not be guilty of an offence under this subsection
by reason of his failure to comply with such conditions as are mentioned in
subsection (3)(b) if it is shown that there is reasonable excuse for the
failure.]

(7) Any person deeming himself aggrieved by the withholding, suspension, or
revocation of any licence under the provisions of this section may appeal to a
court of summary jurisdiction held after the expiration of two clear days
after such withholding, suspension, or revocation: Provided that the person so
aggrieved shall give twenty-four hours' written notice of such appeal, and the
ground thereof, to the [district council], and the court shall have power to
make such order as they see fit and to award costs, such costs to be
recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1907 - SECT 94