Transport and Works Act 1992

Harbours

63 Harbours

(1) The [1964 c. 40.] Harbours Act 1964 shall have effect with the amendments set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.

(2) In section 37 of the [1966 c. 28.] Docks and Harbours Act 1966 (which gives to harbour authorities powers to acquire harbour businesses, and to subscribe for or acquire securities of bodies engaged, or to be engaged, in harbour businesses)—

(a) in subsection (1), for the words “harbour operations” and the words “such operations” there shall be substituted the words “activities relating to harbours”;

(b) in subsection (2), for the words “harbour operations” there shall be substituted the words “activities relating to harbours”;

(c) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

“(2A) Nothing in subsection (2) above shall be construed as authorising a harbour authority to delegate to another body any function that it could not delegate apart from that subsection.”;

(d) subsection (3) shall be omitted.

(3) In section 35 of the [1949 c. 74.] Coast Protection Act 1949 (which excepts certain operations from the requirement to obtain the Secretary of State’s consent under section 34) in subsection (1) there shall be added after paragraph (h)—

“(i) any operations authorised by an order under section 14 or 16 of the Harbours Act 1964.”