Merchant Shipping Act 1894

580 Making and confirming provisional orders.

(1) The Board of Trade may make a provisional order under this Part of this Act on the application in writing of some person interested in the pilotage of the district or in the operation of the laws or regulations relating to that pilotage.

(2) Notice of the application having been made shall be published once at least in each of two successive weeks in the month immediately succeeding the date of the application in the Shipping Gazette, and in some newspaper or newspapers circulating in the county, or, if there are more than one county, in the counties adjacent to the pilotage district to which the application relates.

(3) The notice shall state the objects which it is proposed to effect by the provisional order.

(4) The Board of Trade on receiving the application shall refer the same to the pilotage authority or authorities of the district, and shall receive and consider any objections which may be made to the proposed provisional order, and shall for that purpose allow at least six weeks to elapse between the date on which the application is referred to the pilotage authority and that on which the provisional order is made.

(5) The Board of Trade shall, after considering all objections, determine whether to proceed with the provisional order or not ; ,and shall, if they determine to proceed with the order, settle the order in such manner and with such terms and conditions, not being inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as they may think fit; and shall, when they have settled the order, forward copies thereof to the persons making the application and to the pilotage authority of any district to which it refers.

(6) A provisional order under this Part of this Act shall not take effect unless and until it is confirmed by Parliament; and for the purpose of that confirmation the Board of Trade shall introduce into Parliament a public general Bill in which, or in the schedule to which, the provisional order or provisional orders to be thereby confirmed shall be set out at length.

(7) If any petition is presented to either House of Parliament against any such provisional order in the progress through Parliament of the Bill confirming the same, so much of the Bill as relates to the order petitioned against may be referred to a select committee, and the petitioner shall in that case be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private Bills.