The Dumfries and Galloway Council (Isle of Whithorn) Harbour Empowerment Order 2008

PART IV FACILITIES AND SERVICES, ETC.

Power to provide warehouses and other facilities

34.  The Council may provide warehouses, workshops, slipways and services for marine repairs and ancillary works or contract with others for the provision of such facilities or services.

Power to provide parking places

35.  The Council may provide facilities (including shelters) within the harbour for the parking of vehicles and for that purpose may erect barricades or fencing with related offices, waiting rooms and other conveniences.

Provision of vessels

36.  The Council may construct, purchase, contract for or hire, and may maintain and use, vessels required by it for carrying out its functions under this Order, including dredging, and may sell or dispose of any such vessels belonging to it.

Power to hire out plant, etc.

37.  The Council may let upon hire (with or without the services of its employees) on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit any vessel, plant, equipment or other property belonging to it and forming part of the harbour undertaking.

Provision of supplies

38.—(1) The Council may provide and supply or make arrangements with others for the provision and supply of fuel, ice, water, chandlery and marine equipment for the bunkering and service of vessels.

(2) Supplies may be provided under this article in the harbour or (with the consent of the occupier of the land) at any other place in Dumfries and Galloway where such supplies may be required by vessels which customarily use the harbour.

(3) The Council may lay down and maintain or make arrangements for the laying down and maintenance of pipelines, storage tanks, equipment and other apparatus, and the execution of ancillary and necessary works, for the purposes of such supplies in the harbour or (with the consent of the occupier of the land) at any other place in Dumfries and Galloway where supplies are to be provided under this article.