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| Made | 12th February 2002 | ||
| Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly | 20th May 2002 | ||
| Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(1) |
General powers and duties in respect of harbour
3.
- (1) The Authority may take such steps from time to time as it considers necessary or expedient for the improvement, maintenance and management of the harbour and the accommodation and facilities afforded therein or in connection therewith.
(2) For those purposes, and without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Authority may -
(3) This Article is without prejudice to any powers of the Authority under or by virtue of any other enactment (including any other provision of this Order).
Further powers with respect to land
4.
- (1) The Authority may -
(2) The powers of the Authority under sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall be exercisable in accordance with arrangements made by the Department.
(3) The Authority may for the purposes of the harbour undertaking manage, use or develop land belonging to it as it thinks fit.
(4) Any capital money received by the Authority in respect of any transaction under this Article shall be applied in or towards the repayment of monies borrowed by the Authority or for other purposes of the Authority for which capital money may properly be applied.
Subsidiaries
5.
- (1) The Authority may form and promote a wholly-owned subsidiary for carrying on any activities which the Authority has power to carry on.
(2) The Authority shall secure that any company formed in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) remains such a wholly-owned subsidiary.
(3) The Authority may enter into arrangements with a company formed in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) for the transfer to that company from the Authority or from any other company so formed, in such manner and on such terms (including payments by any of the parties to the arrangements to any of them) as may be provided for by the arrangements, of any property, rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority or of that other company, which are relevant to the carrying on of the activities to be carried on by the first-mentioned company.
Borrowing
6.
- (1) The Authority may borrow money upon the security of all or any of the revenues and property of the Authority and by any method or methods it sees fit.
(2) The total amount of monies borrowed under this Article and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed £2,500,000 or such greater amount as may be approved by the Department in writing.
(3) In calculating for the purposes of paragraph (2) the amount of money borrowed by the Authority and outstanding at any one time there shall be excluded any monies borrowed for use within 3 months of the date of borrowing for repayment of any sum for the time being outstanding by way of principal on any amount previously borrowed.
(4) Monies borrowed by the Authority under this Article shall be applied only to purposes to which capital money is properly applicable.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), but without prejudice to the generality thereof, purposes to which capital money is properly applicable shall be deemed to include -
Temporary borrowing
7.
- (1) The Authority may borrow temporarily, by way of overdraft or otherwise, such sums as the Authority may require for meeting its obligations or discharging its functions under or in pursuance of any enactment.
(2) The total amount of monies borrowed under this Article and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed such amount as may be approved by the Department in writing.
(3) The power conferred by this Article shall be in addition to any other borrowing power for the time being exercisable by the Authority.
Power to license pleasure craft and boatmen
8.
- (1) The Authority may grant, upon such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, licences for pleasure craft to be let for hire to the public in the course of trade or business or to be used for carrying passengers for hire within the harbour, and to the boatmen or persons assisting in the charge or navigation of such craft.
(2) Any such licence may be granted for such period as the Authority may think fit, and may be suspended or revoked by the Authority whenever it shall deem such suspension or revocation to be necessary or desirable in the interests of the public.
(3) The existence of the power to suspend or revoke the licence shall be plainly set forth in the licence itself.
(4) A person shall not within the harbour -
(5) This Article shall not be taken to require a person to be licensed as a boatman who takes on hire a pleasure craft for purposes other than for profit.
(6) A licence under this Article shall not be required for any craft which has a passenger certificate issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and valid for the voyage intended or, in the case of hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968[7], a certificate of safety valid for the voyage intended.
(7) A person shall not carry or permit to be carried in any pleasure craft a greater number of passengers for hire than shall be specified in the licence applying to such craft, and every owner of any such craft shall before permitting the same to be used for carrying passengers for hire, paint or cause to be painted, in letters and figures not less than three centimetres in height and one half centimetre in breadth, on a conspicuous part of the said craft, his own name and also the number of persons which it is licensed to carry, in the form "Licensed to carry-persons".
(8) Any person who shall act in contravention of paragraph (4) or (7) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(9) Any person aggrieved by the withholding, suspension or revocation of any licence or by any term or condition subject to which a licence has been granted under the provisions of this Article may appeal to a Court of summary jurisdiction.
(10) In this Article "pleasure craft" means any vessel of not more than 100 tonnes gross used wholly or mainly for recreation or for the carriage of passengers for reward and includes pleasure boats.
Amendment of the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority Order (Northern Ireland) 1971
9.
- (1) In Article 3 of the Order of 1971[8] the reference to section 23 of the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847[9] shall be deleted.
(2) For Schedule 1 to the Order of 1971, there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.
Repeal
10.
The statutory provision specified in columns 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 is hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on
12th February 2002.
L.S.
Peter D. Robinson
Minister for Regional Development
(4)
(5) Section 18(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to any appointment made by the Department under sub-paragraph (1).
(6) The Authority shall appoint a person to act as Chief Executive Officer to the Authority.
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A maximum of three of the persons appointed under paragraph 2(1) shall be members of the Newry and Mourne District Council (in this Part referred to as "the Council") appointed by the Department following consultation with the Council. Any member so appointed shall be eligible to serve as a member of the Authority for a period co-terminus with his membership of the Council.
4.
A person appointed under paragraph 3 who ceases to be a member of the Council shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Authority.
5.
- (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) in the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of the Chairman the vacancy shall be filled by the Deputy Chairman until a new Chairman is appointed by the Department.
(2) If there is no Deputy Chairman, the Authority shall elect one of its number, other than a person referred to in paragraph 2(2), to fill any such vacancy as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) and the member of the Authority so elected shall hold office as Chairman until a new Chairman is appointed by the Department.
6.
- (1) The Department in making appointments under paragraph 2(1) shall select persons who appear to it to have experience of, and to have capacity in, one or more of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) or to have in some other respect special knowledge or experience which would be of value to the Authority in the discharge of its functions, or to have any other skills and abilities considered from time to time by the Department to be revelant or useful to the Authority.
(2) The matters referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are the management of harbours, shipping, port usage, industrial, commercial or financial matters, administration, and the organisation of workers.
7.
The Department may appoint one of its officials to attend meetings of the Authority as an observer. Any observer so appointed shall not take part in any deliberation or decision of the Authority.
| Chapter | Short Title | Extent of Revocation |
| S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1971 No. 136 | The Warrenpoint Harbour Authority Order (Northern Ireland) 1971 | Articles 3(d), 7(2)(d) and 9(2) to (5) |
[3] S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 6(d) and Schedule 4 Part IVback
[4] S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1971 No. 136; S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 4; S.R. 1974 No. 215back
[6] S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1971 No. 136back
[8] S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1971 No. 136; amended by S.R. 1994 No. 399back
