PART 5

Financial Provisions

Charges other than ship, passenger and goods dues
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1
The Trustees may make such reasonable charges for services and facilities provided by them or on their behalf in relation to the harbour as they may from time to time determine.
2
In paragraph (1) “charges” does not include ship, passenger and goods dues as defined by section 57 of the 1964 Act.

Liability for charges
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1
Charges payable to the Trustees on or in respect of—
a
a vessel shall be payable by the owner, charterer or master of the vessel,
b
goods shall be payable by the owner, consignee or shipper of the goods.
2
Where a charge payable to the Trustees may be recovered from more than one person the persons from whom it is recoverable shall be jointly and severally liable.

Power to grant exemptions, rebates, etc., in respect of charges
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1
The Trustees may confer total or partial exemptions from, allow rebates to or make compositions with any person with respect to charges, and may vary or extinguish any such exemption or composition.
2
Nothing in section 30 of the 1964 Act shall require the Trustees to include in the list of ship, passenger and goods dues kept at the harbour office, as required by subsection (1) of that section, charges reduced by a rebate allowed on, or subject to a compounding arrangement in respect of, a due included in the said list.

Borrowing powers
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The Trustees may from time to time borrow, by any methods and on such terms as they see fit, such sums of money as they think necessary for the purposes of meeting their obligations in carrying out their statutory powers, duties and functions; and where moneys are borrowed by the Trustees under this article, the Trustees may, if they see fit, borrow those moneys upon the security of some or all of their assets or of some or all of their revenues or of some or all of both their assets and revenues; and the Trustees may effect such arrangements as they see fit to mitigate against any financial risk incurred for the purposes of meeting such obligations.