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Enforced by: Crown Estate Scotland
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

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s.035 Master to report arrival of vessel. Regulated

Report vessel arrival to the harbour master within 24 hoursAny Person

s.037 Masters of vessels to give accounts of goods intended to be unshipped within the limits, &c. Regulated

Report goods to be unloaded to the harbour authorityAny Person

s.053 Penalty on shipmasters not complying with directions of the harbour master. Regulated

Follow harbour master’s directions for vessel movementAny Person

s.058 Harbour master may remove vessels within docks, &c. Regulated

Pay expenses if harbour master moves your vessel due to non-complianceAny Person

s.059 Vessels entering harbour or dock to be dismantled as harbour master shall direct. Regulated

Dismantle vessel as directed by harbour master before entering harbour/dock or approaching pierAny Person

s.060 Vessels to have their sails lowered when entering and navigating dock. Regulated

Lower sails before entering a dock and do not navigate under sail inside itAny Person

s.061 Vessels to have hawsers, &c. fixed to moorings. Regulated

Secure vessel to moorings with hawsers when harbour master requiresAny Person

s.063 Penalty on vessels lying near the entrance of harbour or dock without permission. Regulated

Do not moor vessel at harbour entrance without permissionAny Person

s.064 Vessels may be removed for the purpose of repairing harbour or dock. Regulated

Move your vessel within 3 days if harbour master orders removal for repairsAny Person

s.066 Delivery of cargoes and placing of discharged vessels. Regulated

Remove discharged vessels within 24 hours of harbour master's written noticeAny Person

111 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Extent of Act.

s.002 The expression “the special Act” used in this Act shall...

s.003 Interpretations in this and the special Act.

s.003 Interpretation: the Crown Estate and Scotland

s.004 Short title of this Act.

s.005 Form in which portions of this Act may be incorporated in other Acts.

s.006 Construction of harbour, dock, or pier, to be subject to the provisions of this Act and one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts.

s.007 Errors and omissions in plans, &c. may be corrected by justices, &c. who shall certify the same.

s.008 Works not to be proceeded with until plans of all alterations authorized by Parliament have been deposited.

s.009 Clerks of the peace, &c. to receive plans of alterations, and allow inspection.

s.010 Copies of plans, &c. to be evidence.

s.011 No deviation beyond the limits defined upon plans.

s.012 †Works on the shore of the sea, &c. not to be constructed without the authority of the Commissioners of Woods, &c. and of the Admiralty.

s.013 †Before alterations in plans are executed, to be approved of by the Admiralty and the Commissioners of Woods, &c.

s.014 Undertakers to erect watch-house and boat-house for custom house officers, and keep the same in repair.

s.015 Penalty on undertakers neglecting to repair watch-house, &c.

s.016 Life-boats, &c. to be provided by undertakers.

s.017 Penalty for not providing life-boat, &c.

s.018 A self-registering tide gauge and barometer to be provided by undertakers.

s.019 Penalty for not providing tide gauge, &c.

s.020 Power to purchase additional land required for extraordinary purposes.

s.021 Power to construct warehouses and other works.

s.022 Undertakers to hire persons to work cranes.

s.023 Power to lease wharfs, warehouses, &c.

s.024 †Legal quays to be approved by the Treasury, &c.

s.025 Rates not to be taken until the works shall be completed.

s.026 Certificate of magistrate to be evidence that the harbour &c. is completed.

s.027 Tonnage of British registered vessels to be ascertained according to law; of other vessels according to established rules.

s.028 Exemption of vessels in her Majesty’s service, &c. from rates.

s.029 Vessels returning from stress of weather not to pay rates again.

s.030 Rates

s.031 As to the rates on foreign vessels where treaties of reciprocity exist.

s.032 Power to compound for tolls payable in respect of passenger or pleasure vessels.

s.033 Harbour, dock, and pier free to the public on payment of rate.

s.034 Collector may enter vessels to ascertain rates payable.

s.036 Master of vessel to produce certificate of registry.

s.038 Penalty on masters giving no account, or a false account, of goods to be unshipped.

s.039 Shippers to give an account of goods intended to be shipped.

s.040 In case of dispute between collector and master, &c. goods to be weighed or measured.

s.041 As to the expences of weighing or measuring goods.

s.042 Rates on goods when payable.

s.043 Penalty on evading payment of rates.

s.044 Recovery of tonnage rates by distraint of ship and tackle.

s.045 Recovery of rates on goods.

s.046 Disputes concerning rates or charges occasioned by distress to be settled by a justice in England or Ireland, and in Scotland by the sheriff.

s.047 Collection of rates

s.048 Collector of customs may withhold a clearance to any vessel until the rates paid.

s.049 Undertakers to keep account of rates and vessels, &c.

s.050 Annual account to be prepared and transmitted to the clerk of the peace in England or Ireland, or to the sheriff in Scotland.

s.051 Appointment of harbour, dock, or pier master.

s.052 Powers of harbour, dock, or pier master.

s.054 Penalty on harbour master for misbehaviour.

s.055 Penalty on offering bribes to dock officers, and on officers taking bribes.

s.056 Harbour master may remove wrecks, &c.

s.057 Unserviceable vessels to be altogether removed from harbour.

s.062 Penalty for wilfully cutting moorings.

s.065 Harbour master may remove such vessel if the master thereof neglect or refuse so to do.

s.067 Penalty on wharfingers giving undue preference.

s.068 Goods may be removed from the quays, &c. after lying there longer than allowed by byelaws.

s.069 Combustible matter on quays, &c., to be removed.

s.070 Combustibles to be guarded during the night.

s.071 Penalties against offences herein named:

s.072 Power to enter ship and search for and extinguish fires or lights.

s.073 Penalty for throwing ballast, &c., into harbour or dock.

s.074 Owner of vessel answerable for damage to works.

s.075 As to the recovery of amount of damage to quays, &c.

s.076 Owner may recover damage from his servants.

s.077 Power to erect lighthouses and lay down buoys, with consent of Trinity House.

s.078 Lights, beacons, or sea-marks not to be exhibited or altered without sanction of Trinity House

s.079 Justices to appoint special constables named by the undertakers.

s.080 Dismissal of constables.

s.081 Power to appoint meters and weighers.

s.082 Licensed meters and weighers only to be employed.

s.083 Byelaws may be made for all or any of the purposes herein named.

s.084 Byelaws may be enforced by imposition of penalties.

s.085 No byelaws to come into operation until allowed in the manner prescribed, and approved by one of the judges.

s.086 Notice of allowance of byelaws to be given in one or more newspapers.

s.087 A copy of proposed byelaws to be open to inspection.

s.088 Publication of byelaws.

s.089 Byelaws to be binding on all parties.

s.090 Proof of publication of byelaws.

s.092 Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as to damages, &c. to be incorporated with this and the special Act.

s.094 All things required to be done by two justices in England and Ireland may, in certain cases, be done by one, and in Scotland by the sheriff, &c.

s.095 †Penalties, &c. imposed in respect of any offence committed within the metropolitan police district to be paid to the receiver and applied under 2 & 3 c. 71.

s.097 Copies of special Act to be kept by undertakers at their office, and deposited with the clerks of the peace, &c., and be open to inspection.

s.098 Penalty on undertakers failing to keep or deposit such copies.

s.099 Nothing in this or the special Act to affect the rights of the crown;

s.100 nor the rights of the crown as to revenue, &c.;

s.101 nor the rights of the City of London;

s.102 nor the rights of Trinity House, &c.

s.103 Act not to exempt the undertakers from the provisions of any general Act.

s.para.100 And with respect to the byelaws to be made by...

s.para.110 And with respect to the recovery of damages not specially...

s.para.116 And with respect to access to the special Act, be...

s.para.119 And with respect to the saving of rights, be it...

s.para.18 And with respect to the construction of works for the...

s.para.2 And with respect to the construction of this Act, and...

s.para.21 And with respect to life-boats, be it enacted as follows:...

s.para.24 And with respect to keeping a tide and weather gauge,...

s.para.27 And with respect to the construction of warehouses, wharfs and...

s.para.33 And with respect to the rates to be taken by...

s.para.43 And with respect to the collection and recovery of rates,...

s.para.59 And with respect to the accounts to be kept of...

s.para.6 And with respect to citing this Act, or any part...

s.para.62 And with respect to the appointment of harbour masters, dock...

s.para.78 And with respect to the discharging of vessels and the...

s.para.82 And with respect to the protection of the harbour, dock,...

s.para.9 And with respect to the construction of the harbour, dock,...

s.para.91 And with respect to buoys, lighthouses and beacons, be it...

s.para.94 And with respect to the police of the harbour, dock,...

s.para.97 And with respect to the appointment of meters and weighers,...

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The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (as amended)

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