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Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7. Ch. 68.] 
 
 ARRANGEMENT OE SECTIONS. 
 
 Establishment of Port of London Authority . 
 
 Section. 
 
 1. Establishment of Port of London Authority. 
 
 Powers and duties of Port Authority as to Accommodation 
 
 and Facilities. 
 
 2. General duties of Port Authority as to improvement of 
 
 accommodation and facilities. 
 
 3. Transfer to Port Authority of undertakings of Dock Com- 
 
 panies. 
 
 4. Power to purchase undertakings. 
 
 5. Power to Port Authority to enter into agreements with 
 
 London County Council as to transfer of piers, &c. 
 
 6. Power of Board of Trade to authorise construction of 
 
 works, &c. 
 
 Provisions as to the Thames Conservancy. 
 
 7. Transfer of powers, &c. of Thames Conservators in respect 
 
 of lower river. 
 
 8. Reconstitution of Conservators. 
 
 9. Substitution of port stock for Thames Conservancy A 
 
 debenture stock. 
 
 10. Relations between Port Authority and the Conservators. 
 
 Provisions as to the Watermen's Gompa/ny, SfC. 
 
 11. Transfer of certain powers and duties of the Watermen's 
 
 Company. 
 
 12. Provisions as to freemen and a,s to Sunday ferries and 
 
 other charities of the Watermen's Company. 
 
 iPrice 8d.] A i 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
[Oh. 68.] Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. Financial JProvisions. 
 
 Section. 
 
 13. Port rates on goods. 
 
 14. Dock dues on vessels. 
 
 15. Prohibition of preferential, dock charges. 
 
 16. Port fund. 
 
 17. Security for transferred liabilities. 
 
 18. Powers of borrowing. 
 
 19. Issue of port stock. 
 
 20. Provisions as to discharge of loans, &c. 
 
 21. Order in whieh revenue to be applied. 
 
 22. Reserve fund. 
 
 23. Power of Board of Trade to order increase of dues. 
 
 24. Accounts and audit. 
 
 25. Power of Board of Trade to require estimates and audit 
 
 more than once a year. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 26. Powers of Port Authority to acquire land, promote Bills, &o. 
 
 27. Powers of Board of Trade as to conciliation. 
 
 28. Begulation of engagement of casual labour. 
 
 29. Provision of accommodation for alien passengers. 
 
 30. Duty of Port Authority as to surveys. 
 
 31. Through rates in respect of dock railways. 
 
 32. Provisions as to substituted stock. 
 
 33. Provision as to Provisional Orders, &c. 
 
 34. Byelaws. 
 
 35. Mutual rights as to inapection of documents. 
 
 36. Annual report. 
 
 37. Qualification of justices. 
 
 88. Provisions as to the Board of Trade. 
 
 39. Exemption of members of Port Authority from [service on 
 juries. 
 
 40. Saving of right of authorities to be heard against Bills. 
 
 41. Saving for the Customs. 
 
 42. Saving for Admiralty, 
 ii 
 
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 Y5", AHSIJ.,' ' 
 
8 Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.J 
 
 Section. 
 
 43. Saving for vessels and goods passing through the Port of A.D. 1908. 
 
 Loudon. 
 
 44. Saving in case of damage caused by dredging. 
 46. Saving for the borough of Southend-on-Sea. 
 
 46. Saving for the urban district of Sheerness. 
 
 47. Saving for the rural district of Sheppey. 
 
 48. Saving for London, Tilbury, and Southend Eailway Company. 
 
 Definitions, Repeal, Sj-o. 
 
 49. Definitions. 
 
 50. Repeal. 
 61. Short title. 
 
 Transitory Provisions. 
 
 52. Adjustment of property and liabilities. 
 
 53. Maintenance of undertakings of dock companies until the 
 
 appointed day. 
 
 54. Dissolution of dock companies. 
 
 65. Saving for existing watermen and apprentices. 
 
 66. Temporary advances. 
 
 57. Pending proceedings and existing contracts. 
 
 58. Saving for existing byelaws, &c. 
 
 59. Compensation to directors of dock companies. 
 
 60. Existing officers and servants. 
 
 61. Amendment of Pilotage Order Confirmation Act, 1896. 
 
 62. Power of Board of Trade to remove difficulties. 
 
 63. Costs of Act. 
 
 SCHEDTJLSS. 
 
 A 2 iii 
 
[8 Edw. 7.1 Fort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 CHAPTER 68. 
 
 An Act to provide for the improvement and better a.d. 1908. 
 administration of the Port of London, and for 
 purposes incidental thereto. [21st December 1908.] 
 
 BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 
 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 
 and by the authority of the same, as follows: — 
 
 Estahlishment of Port of London Authority. 
 
 1. — (1) An authority (in this Act referred to as the Port Establish- 
 
 Authority) shall be established for the purpose of administering, "l®?* °^ ^^'^ 
 
 • A • ■ +V, T) + «^ T i A i-i. • ^ of London 
 
 preservmg, and improving the Port or London and otherwise for Authority. 
 
 the purposes of this Act. 
 
 (2) The Port Authority shall be a body corporate by the 
 name of the Port of London Authority, with a common seal, 
 having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this 
 Act without licence in mortmain. 
 
 (3) The Port Authority shall consist of a chairman and 
 vice-chairman and other members elected and appointed in 
 manner provided by this Act. 
 
 (4) Subject to the provisions of this section, the chairman 
 and vice-chairman shall be appointed by the Port Authority ; the 
 person to be appointed to either such office may, but need not, 
 be an elected or appointed member. 
 
 (5) Subject to the provisions of this section, the number of 
 elected members shall be eighteen, of whom seventeen shall be 
 elected by payers of dues, wharfingers, and owners of river craft, 
 and one shall be elected by. wharfingers. 
 
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[Oh. 68.] Port of^ London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. (6) Subject to the provisions of this section, the number of 
 
 the appointed members shall be ten, appointed as follows: — 
 By the Admiralty . . - - 1 
 
 By the Board of Trade .... 2 
 By the London County OouncU (being 
 
 members of the Council) - - 2 
 
 By the London County Council (not being 
 members of the CouncU) - - 2 
 
 By the Corporation (being a member of the 
 Corporation) - - - - 1 
 
 By the Corporation (not being a member of 
 
 the Corporation) - - - - 1 
 
 By the Trinity House - - - 1 
 
 (7) With a yiew to providing for the representation of labour 
 on the !Port Authority, one of the members of the Port Authority 
 appointed by the Board of Trade shall be appointed by the Board 
 after consultation with such organisations representative of labour 
 as the Board think best qualified to advise them upon the 
 matter, and one of the members of the Port Authority appointed 
 by the London County Council shall be appointed by the council 
 after consultation with such organisations representative of labour 
 as the council think best qualified to advise them upon the 
 matter. , 
 
 (8) Until the time fixed by this Act for the first retirement 
 of members, two at least of the members of the Port Authority 
 shall be persons of experience in dock management, and, if in 
 order to enable this requirement to be observed it is necessary to 
 do so, the Board of Trade may appoint one or two additional 
 appointed members. 
 
 (9) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Port 
 Authority may pay to the chairman, vice-chaurman, and chair- 
 man of any committee, or to any of them, such salaries or salary 
 as the Port Authority may determine. 
 
 (10) Subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions 
 contained in the Pirst Schedule to this Act shall have effect 
 with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the Port 
 Authority and the election and appointment of members. 
 
 (11) The first elected members, instead of being elected as 
 provided by this Act, shall be appointed by the Board of Trade 
 after consultation with such persons and bodies having knowledge 
 
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[8 Ebw. 7.J Fort of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 and experience of trade or shipping in the Port of London as A.D. 1908. 
 the Board may think fit, and the fi-rst chairman shall, if the 
 Board think fit, be appointed by the Board, and shall, if 
 appointed by the Board, be paid such salary (if any) as the 
 Board may determine. 
 
 Powers and duties of Port Authority as to Accommodation 
 
 and Facilities. 
 
 2.— (1) It shall be the duty of the Port Authority, as soon as General 
 may be after ihe appointed day, to take into consideration the p^^^V'ti 
 state of the rirver and the accommodatiooi and facilities afforded rfty as to im- 
 in the Port of London, and, subiect to the protisions of this provement of 
 
 ■' ■*■ accommoaa- 
 
 Act, to take such steps as they may consider necessary for the tion and 
 improvement thereof. facilities. 
 
 (2) For the purposes aforesaid the Pbrt Authority may, 
 subject to the provisions of this Act, do all or any of the 
 following things: — 
 
 (a) carry on the undertaking of any dock compmy trans- 
 ferred to the Poit Authority by this Act; 
 
 (8) acquire and carry on any undertaking affording or 
 intended to afford accommodation or facilities for 
 the loading, unloading at warehousing of goods in 
 the Port of London; 
 
 (c) constnict, equip, maintain, or manage any docks, quays, 
 wharves, jetties, locks, or piers, and buildings, rail- 
 ways and other works in connexion therewith; 
 
 {d) exercise any other powers conferred on or transferred 
 to the Port Authority by or under this Act. 
 
 3. — (1) As from the appointed day the undertakings- of the Transfer to 
 London and India Docks Company, the Surrey Commercial Dock rf^'^o^u^"' 
 Company, and the Millwall Dock Company (which companies are takings of 
 in this Act referred to as dock companies) shall be transfierrBd ^°°^«"n- 
 
 •*■ panies. 
 
 to and vest in the Port Authority, and the Port Authority shall 
 issue to those companiesy or as they may direct, as eonsideratioia 
 for theie undertakings the following amounts of port stock rareated 
 under this Act — 
 
 (a) in the case; of the London and India Doicks Company, 
 seven million nine hundred and seventy-eight thousand 
 eight hundred and seventy-sis pounds of A port stock 
 A 4 3 
 
[Ch.:68.J Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. and nine million eight hundred and ninety-three thou- 
 
 sand eight hundred and thirty-five pounds of B port 
 stock : 
 
 (6) in the case of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company, 
 five hundred and twenty-two thousand pounds of A 
 port stock and two million three hundred and eighty- 
 eight thousand four hundred and eighty-five pounds of 
 B port stock : 
 
 (c) in the case of the Millwall Dock Company, six hundred 
 and fifty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-six 
 pounds of A port stock and nine hundred and twenty- 
 eight thousand five hundred and four pounds of 
 B port stock. 
 
 (2) The stocks so issued shall be substituted for the existing 
 debenture and other stocks of the dock companies in accordance 
 with the provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act, and on 
 such substitutions being effected the existing debenture and 
 other stocks of those companies shall be cancelled : 
 
 ■ Provided that no interest shall accrue due on any such 
 existing stock in respect of any period after the appointed day, 
 but the port stock issued in substitution therefor shall carry 
 interest as from the appointed day. 
 
 (3) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any order 
 of the Board of Trade made under this section, on the transfer 
 of anv such undertaking the Port Authority shall hold the 
 undertaking, and may exercise all the rights, powers, and 
 privileges of the company, and shall, to the exclusion of the 
 company, be subject to all the duties, obligations, and liabilities 
 of the company (other than those in respect of the debenture 
 stock of the company) under the Acts, whether local or general, 
 and other provisions relating to or affecting the company, and to 
 all other duties, liabilities, and obligations of the company existing 
 at the appointed day, in like manner as if they were the 
 company. 
 
 (4) The Board of Trade may make such orders as may be 
 necessary for the purpose of enabling the transfers to be effected 
 and enabling the Port Authority to carry on the undertakings 
 when transferred. 
 
 Power to 4. — (1) It shall be lawful for the Port Authority and the 
 
 u^ertek- Owners of any undertaking affording or intended to afford accom- 
 ings. modation or faciUties for the loading, unloading, or warehousing 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Port 0/ London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 of goods in the Port of London with the consent of the Board of A.D. 1908. 
 Ti'ade to enter into and carry into effect an agreement for the 
 transfer of the undertaking to the Port Authority, and the Board 
 of Trade may, on the application of the Port Authority or the 
 owners, make such orders as may be necessary for the purpose of 
 enabling the agreement to be carried into effect, and any such 
 order may (amongst other things) provide, if the owners are a 
 company, for the redemption and payment off of any debentures or 
 debenture stock of the company, and for the dissolution of the 
 company, and, if the whole or any part of the consideration under 
 the agreement consists of port stock, as to the period within which 
 provision is to be made for the redemption of that port stock, 
 
 (2) If the Port Authority desire to purchase any such under- 
 taking but are unable to come to an agreement with the owners 
 of the undertaking, it shall be lawful for the Port Authority 
 to promote a Bill in Parliament for the purpose. 
 
 5. The Port Authority and the London County Council may Power to 
 enter into and carry into effect agreements for or with respect ^P^ Autho- 
 to the acquisition by or transfer to the Port Authority, on such into agree- 
 terms and conditions as may be agreed, of any piers and ments with 
 landing places belonging to or held by the said council, together County 
 with the powers of making byelaws, appointing tolls, rates, or Council as to 
 charges, and of levying and enforcing the same, and with all pig^g ^ J*' 
 other rights, powers, and authorities vested in or exerciseal)le by 
 the said council in respect of such piers and landing places, and, 
 upon such acquisition or transfer, all the said powers, rights, and 
 authorities shall become vested in and exeroiseable by the Port 
 Authority. 
 
 6. — (1) The Board of Trade may on the application of the Power of 
 Port Authority make an order — S^^V^**^ 
 
 •' Trade to au- 
 
 («) authorising the construction and equipment of such *Jiorise con- 
 
 j 1 I, • i.j.- • J T. -1 T struction of 
 
 docks, quays, wharves, jetties, or piers, and buildings, works, &c. 
 railways, and other works in connexion therewith as 
 may be specified in the order ; 
 
 (i) authorising the purchase and taking otherwise than by 
 agreement of such land as may be specified in the 
 order ; 
 
 (<?) authorising the imposition, levying, collection, and 
 recovery of such dues, rates, tolls, and other charges 
 
[Oh. 68.] Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.J 
 
 A.D. 1908. in respect of the use o£ any works proposed to^ be 
 
 ■ ^— constructed in pursuance of an order under this section, 
 
 and conferring such powers of management of those 
 works, as may be specified in the order ; 
 
 {d) authorising the Port Authority to charge to capital 
 as part of the cost of construction of any work 
 authorised by the order, the interest on any money 
 raised to defray the expenses of construction of any 
 such work and the acquisition of land for the pur- 
 pose, for such period and subject to such restrictions 
 as may be mentioned in the order : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (i) no land shall be. authorised by an order under this section 
 to be acquired compulsorily which is situate to the 
 westward of the meridian six minutes of longitude 
 east of Greenwich or which has been acquired by the 
 owners thereof under any Local Act, Prorisional 
 Order, or order having the force of an Act of 
 Parliament ; 
 
 (ii) an order authorising the construction of new works 
 shall impose on the Port Authority an obligation 
 to provide such housing accommodation for the 
 persons to be employed at the new works when 
 constructed as the Board of Trade may from time 
 to time consider requisite ; and 
 
 (iii) Nothing in this section shall, without the consent of 
 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, authorise 
 the acquisition of any common or commonable land, 
 or any recreation ground, village green, or other 
 open space dedicated to the use of the public, or 
 any disused biarial ground. 
 
 (2) Before making an order under this section, the Board of 
 Trade shall appoint an impartial person, not in the employment 
 of any Government Department, to hold a public inquiry on 
 their behalf, and, if he reports or if it appears to the Board of 
 Trade that by reason of the extent or situation of any land 
 proposed to be acquired compulsorily, or the purposes for which 
 such land is used,, or any other circumstances, the land ou.ght not 
 to be acquired compulsorily without the sanction of Parliament, 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. .[^h. 68.] 
 
 the order of the Board shall be provisional only and shaU not A.D. 1908. 
 have effect unless confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (3) Any order made under this section authorising the 
 purchase and taking of land otherwise than by agreement shall 
 incorporate the Lands Clauses Acts as if the order were a special 
 Act within the meaning of those Acts. 
 
 (4) An order other than a Provisional Order made by the 
 Board of Trade under this section shall not take efPect until a 
 draft thereof has lain for thirty days during the session of 
 Parliament on the table of both Houses of Parliament, and, if 
 either House during those thirty days presents an address to 
 His Majesty against the draft, no further proceedings shall be 
 taken thereon but without prejudice to the making of a new 
 order. 
 
 Provisions as to the Thames Consevoamcy. 
 
 7. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, as from the Transfer ot 
 appointed day there shall be transferred to the Port Authority P? ^^^' *'"' 
 all rights, powers, and duties of the Conservators of the Biver Conservators 
 Thames (in this Act referred to as the Conservators) in respect ]° respect of 
 
 low6r river. 
 
 of the Biver Thames below the landward limit of the Port of 
 London and there shall also be traasferred from the Conservators 
 to the Port Authority the lower navigation fund and all liabilities 
 in respect of, and any sinking fund applicable to the redemption 
 of, the Thames Conservancy redeemable A debenture stock, and 
 all property and liabilities of the Conservators held, acquired, or 
 incurred in respect of the Thames below the landward limit of the 
 Port of London. 
 
 (2) All enactments relating to the Conservators (except those 
 regulating the funds and accounts of and borrowing by the 
 Conservators) shall, so far as not repealed by this Act and so far 
 as jthey relate to the rights, powers, duties, property, and liabilities 
 transferred, have effect as if references to the Port Authority were 
 substituted for references to the Conservators : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a) in any such enactments references to the Port of 
 London shall be construed as references to the Port 
 of London as defined by this Act ; and 
 
 {h) in any such enactments references to the Biver Thames 
 above and below Teddington Lock shaU be construed 
 
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[Oh. 68.]. Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. as references to the River Thames above and below 
 
 the landward limit of the Port of London; and 
 
 (c) in the definition of "the Thames" in section three 
 57 & 58 Vict. of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, for "an 
 c. cxxxvii. „ imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance 
 
 " to Tantlet Creek in the county of Kent to the 
 " city stone opposite to Canvey Island in the county 
 " of Essex," there shall be substituted "the seaward 
 " limit of the port of London " ; and in that defini- 
 tion after the words "railway company" there shall 
 be inserted the words "and no part of the River 
 " Medway within the jurisdiction of the Conserva- 
 " tors of that river " ; and 
 
 [d) for the proviso to subsection (1) of section eighty-three 
 
 of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (which relates 
 to the area within which the powers of dredging are 
 exerciseable), there shall be substituted, " Provided 
 " that the Board of Trade may, on the application 
 " of the Port Authority, by Provisional Order extend 
 " the area within which the powers under this 
 " subsection may be exercised so as to include so 
 " much of the estuary of the River Thames and 
 " the shores thereof to the eastward of the seaward 
 " limit of the Port of London as is westward tif 
 " such line as may be fixed by the Provisional 
 " Order"; and 
 
 {e) so much of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894!, as 
 exempts from duties of tonnage, vessels for pas- 
 sengers only shall be repealed; and 
 
 5 Edw. 7. (/) so much of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1905, as 
 
 c. cxcviii. limits the period during which the increased duties 
 
 of tonnage authorised by that Act may be demanded 
 and received shall be repealed; and 
 
 {g) enactments relating to powers and duties as to house- 
 boats, and pleasure boats shall not apply to the 
 Port Authority; and 
 
 (K) the powers and duties of the Port Authority and their 
 oflBcers with respect to fishing boats, fish, and 
 fishing, shall, unless and until such an order as is 
 herein-after mentioned is made, extend to the line 
 
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[8 Ebw. 7.J Port of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 drawn from Yantlet Creek to the city stone opposite A.D. 1908. 
 to Oanvey Island but not eastward of that line, hut 
 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may, with 
 the consent of the Board of Trade, make an order 
 either — 
 
 (i) excluding from the Kent and Essex sea 
 fisheries district such part of the Port of London 
 as is included therein, and extending the said 
 powers and duties of the Port Authority and 
 their ofiB.cers to the part of the Port of London 
 eastward of the said line; or 
 
 (ii) extending the Kent and Essex sea fisheries 
 district to such part of the Port of London west- 
 ward of the said line as may he specified in the 
 order, and excluding such part from the area 
 within which the said powers and duties of the 
 Port Authority and their officers may be exercised 
 and performed ; 
 
 and any order made for that purpose shall have 
 efiect as if it was an amending Order made under 
 the Sea Pisheries Regulation Act, 1888; and 51 & 62 Vict. 
 
 c. 54. 
 
 (i) if the Port Authority revoke any licence for any of the 
 purposes mentioned in sections one hundred and 
 nine and one hundred and ten of the Thames Conser- 
 vancy Act, 1894, granted by the Conservators or 
 their predecessors and in force at the appointed day, 
 or refuse to grant a licence for any such purpose 
 on reasonable terms, the licencee or applicant may 
 appeal against the revocation'or refusal to the Board 
 of Trade and the decision of the Board of Trade 
 shall be final and binding on both parties ; and 
 
 (y) subsection (4) of section one hundred and ninety-three 
 of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, relating to 
 the publication, of alterations in and additions to 
 byelaws shall not apply ; and 
 
 {k) so much of any such enactments as confers powers in 
 relation to pollution shall not apply in the case of 
 any tributaries of the Thames in the county of 
 Middlesex. 
 
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[Oh. 68.J Tort of Londm Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A,D. 1908. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as conferring 
 
 on the Port Authority any right or interest in or to the bed. or 
 shore of the B/iver Thames eastward of the said line drawn from 
 Yantlet Greek to the city stone opposite to Oanvey Island, or 
 as authorising the Port Authority, except with the consent of 
 a Government Department, to take, use, or in any manner interfere 
 with, or to authorise any person to take, use, or interfere with 
 any portion of the bed or shore of the Thames eastward of the 
 said line, which, or the management of which, is vested in that 
 Department, and sections one hundred and sixteen and two hundred 
 and thirty-nine of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, shall not 
 apply with respect to the Thames eastward of the said line ; 
 but a Government Department may transfer to the Port Autho- 
 rity upon such terms as may be respectively agreed on between 
 them and the Port Authority any interest or right of His Majesty 
 in right of His Crown, or His Duchy of Lancaster, or of the 
 Despartment, in or to any portion of the bed or shore of the 
 Thames between the said line and the line drawn from Warden 
 Point to the entrance of Havengore Creek the management 
 whereof is vested in the Department. 
 
 servators. 
 
 Reconstitu- 8. — (1) As from the appointed day the number of Conser- 
 
 «ir™ii™°^" "'■^^'Ors shall be twenty-eight, who shall be appointed by the 
 authorities and in the manner set forth in the Third Schedule 
 to this Act, and the persons who immediately before that dny 
 are the Conservators shall cease to hold office as such : Provided 
 that nothing in this section shall prevent the appointment there- 
 under as a Conservator of any person who was a Conservator 
 immediately before the appointed day. 
 
 (2) As from the appointed day all moneys received by the 
 Conservators shall be paid into, and all expenses incurred by the 
 Conservators shall be paid out of, and all moneys borrowed by 
 the Conservators shaU be charged on the upper navigation fund, 
 whether received, incurred, or borrowed in respect of the Thames 
 above or below the City Stone above Staines Bridge, and in sections 
 two hundred and forty-one to two hundred and eighty-seven of 
 the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (being provisions regulating 
 the funds and accounts of, and borrowing by, the Conservators), 
 references to the Thames above the landward limit of the Port of 
 London shall be substituted for references to the Thames above 
 the City Stone above Staines Bridge. 
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[8 Bdw. 7.3 Port of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 (3) All moneys payable to the Conservators by the Metropolitan A.D, 1908. 
 Water Board, tbe West Surrey Water Company, the South West 
 Suburban Water Company, and the Woking Water and Gas 
 Company, whether in pursuance of the Thames Conservancy Act, 
 
 1894, or otherwise, shall be paid to the Conservators, and no part 
 thereof shall be paid to the Port Authority. 
 
 (4) So much of section tbirty-three of the Thames Con- 
 servancy Act, 1894, as enables the Conservators to set apart a 
 sum for the payment of the Conservators other than the chairman 
 shall as from the appointed day be repealed : 
 
 Provided that nothing in this repeal shall prevent the Con- 
 servators paying any reasonable expenses incurred by individual 
 Conservators in attending meetings of the Board of Conservators 
 and committees thereof or otherwise in the execution of their 
 duties as Conservators. 
 
 (5) One hundred and thirty thousand pounds shall be sub- 
 stituted for one hundred thousand pounds as the maximum sum 
 which the Conservators are authorised to borrow under subsec- 
 tion (2) of section two hundred and fifty-three of the' Thames 
 Conservancy Act, 1894 ; and for removing doubts it is hereby 
 declared that the powers of borrowing conferred on the Conser- 
 vators by that subsection are and shall be deemed always to 
 have been in addition to the power of the Conservators of 
 creating and issuing debenture stock for the purposes mentioned 
 in paragraphs {b) and (c) of subsection (2) of section two 
 hundred and fifty-nine of that Act. 
 
 (6) The right of the Conservators to appoint a member of the 
 Metropolitan Water Board shall be retained by the Conservators 
 and shall not be transferred to the Port Authority. 
 
 (7) On complaint being made to the Local Government 
 Board — 
 
 {a) by the Port Authority, the Metropolitan Water Board, 
 the London County Council, or the Corporation, or 
 by any local authority or water company who appear 
 to the Local Government Board to be interested, that 
 the Conservators have failed to perform the duties 
 imposed upon them with respect to the preservation 
 and maintenance of the flow and purity of the Thames 
 and its tributaries, or have failed to exercise any 
 powers conferred upon them for that purpose; or 
 
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[Ch. 68.J Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. (J) by tlie council of any county, borough, district, or parish 
 
 adjoining the Thames, that the Conservators have failed 
 to exercise any powers conferred on them for the 
 purpose of preserving the rights and interests of the • 
 public in respect to the Thames and its towpaths 
 which they ought to have exercised ; 
 
 the Local Government Board, if they think that there is reasonable 
 ground of complaint j shall call upon the Conservators for an 
 explanation, and, if the Conservators shall not, ^vithin such time 
 as the Local Government Board may fix, give a sufficient explana- 
 tion or remedy the cause of complaint, the I^ocal Government 
 Board may make such order as in their opinion, the circumstances 
 require, and such order shall be binding on the Conservators. 
 
 The Local Government Board may in any case in wbich they 
 
 may think fit so to do, hold a local inquiry for the purposes of this 
 
 section, and the provisions of section seventy-two of the Local 
 
 56 & 57 Vict. Government Act, 1894, with respect to local inquiries by the Local 
 
 c. 1 3. Government Board shall apply to any local inquiries so held. 
 
 , (8) The Board of Trade may by Provisional Order make such 
 amendments, modifications, and repeals of the enactments relating 
 to the Conservators, so far as they continue to apply to the 
 Conservators after the appointed day, as the Board may consider 
 to be necessary in consequence of the passing of this Act, and 
 in particular any such Provisional Order may contain provisioos 
 for — 
 
 (a) regulating the term of office, rotation, disqualification, 
 
 removal and appointment to casual vacancies of the 
 
 Conservators ; 
 
 (6) revising the tolls, fees, and other charges (except the 
 sums which are payable to the Conservators by the 
 Metropolitan Water Board or any water company) 
 leviable by the Conservators. 
 
 Substitution 9. — (1) Within one year from the appointed day all the 
 
 fOT Tha^me? Thames Conservancy redeemable A debenture stock shall be 
 Conservancy extinguished, and the Port Authority shall issue to the holder of 
 ^oek'^"*"'^^ any such stock in substitution therefor an equal amount of A 
 port stock created under this Act. 
 
 (2) As soon as the Port Authority resolve to issue port stock 
 in substitution for any debenture stock in accordance with this 
 section they shall give notice of their intention to do so by 
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 advertising it once in the " London Gazette " and in two or more a.d. 1908. 
 
 London daily newspapers, and by sending notice by post to each of 
 
 the holders of the debenture stock to his registered address, and 
 
 the notice shall specify the place and the time, not being less than 
 
 three months from the date of the notice, at which the issue of 
 
 the port stock will be made. 
 
 (3) Before port stock is issued under this section in substitu- 
 tion for any debenture stock the certificate of that stock shall be 
 produced and delivered to the Port Authority. Provided that the 
 Port Authority shall dispense with the production and delivery of 
 a certificate upon receiving such indemnity as may be reasonably 
 required. 
 
 (4) As from the time fixed by the notice for the issue of 
 port stock in substitution for any debenture stock, that debenture 
 stock shall be cancelled and extinguished and no interest shall 
 after that time accrue due in respect thereof, but the port stock 
 issued in substitution therefor shall carry interest as from the 
 time so fixed. 
 
 10.— (1) The Port Authority- may make arrangements with Eelations 
 the Conservators for the exercise by the Conservators in the Port ^^^^it„ °'* 
 of London on behalf of the Pout Authority of the powers of and the Coa- 
 the Port Authority for regulating the passage of vessels on the servators. 
 Thames on the occasion of a regatta, boat race, or other similar 
 occasion. 
 
 (2) "Where a steam launch has been registered, either by the 
 Port Authority or the Conservators, and a certificate thereof is in 
 force, its registration by the other of those authorities shall not 
 be required, and the Port Authority and the Conservators may 
 respectively, during office hours, inspect the register of steam 
 launches kept by the other, and shall afford to one another all 
 reasonable information in regard thereto. 
 
 Provisions as to the Watermen s Company, 8fC. 
 
 11. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, as from the Transfer 
 appointed day there shall be transferred to the Port Authority all "o^erg^'^^^ 
 powers and duties of the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of duties of the 
 Watermen and lightermen of the River Thames (in this Act W^ermen's 
 referred to as " the Watermen's Company ") and of the Court of 
 Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Watermen's Company (in 
 this Act referred to as "the Court of the Watermen's Company") 
 with respect to — 
 
 (a) the registration and licensing of craft and boats; 
 
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 A.D. 1908. (S) the licensing of lightermen and watermen ; and 
 
 (<?) the government, regulation, and control of lightermen 
 and watermen (including the appointment of plying 
 places and of inspectors) ; 
 
 and there shall also be transferred from the Company to the 
 Port Authority all property and liabilities of the Company held, 
 acquired or incurred by the Company in connexion with the 
 powers and duties so transferred : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a) an arrangement shall be made, unless the Port 
 Authority otherwise determine, between the Port 
 Authority and the Watermen's Company for the 
 exercise and perfornaance by the Company on behalf 
 of the Port Authority of any of their powers and 
 duties with respect to the licensing of lightermen 
 and watermen (other than the power of making bye- 
 laws with respect thereto) upon such terms and 
 conditions as may be agreed between the Authority 
 and the Company, but any such arrangement shall 
 provide for an appeal lying to the Port Authority 
 from the refusal by the Watermen's Company to 
 license a lighterman or waterman; and 
 
 (6) nothing in this section shall be construed as trefiis- 
 ferring to the Port Authority Watermen's Hall, or 
 the sum of six thousand seven hundred and forty- 
 one pounds nine shillings Consolidated two-and-a- 
 half per cent, stock standing in the name of the 
 Company, or any debt of the Company outstanding 
 at the appointed day to the discharge of which such 
 stock as aforesaid or the proceeds thereof could 
 legally be applied, or the sum of four thousand two 
 hundred and twenty-five pounds six shillings and 
 ten pence Metropolitan Water B Stock standing in 
 the name of the Company, or the freehold property 
 known as Nos. 16 and 17, St. Mary-at-Hill, in the 
 parish of Billingsgate, in the city of London, or any 
 property held for charitable purposes. 
 
 (2) All enactments relating to the Watermen's Company and 
 the Court of the Watermen's Company shall, so far as not repealed 
 by this Act, and so far as they relate to the powers and duties 
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 transferred, have effect as if references to the Port Authority were A.D. 1908. 
 
 suhstituted for references to the Company and to the Court : 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a) the limits of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Amend- 22 & 23 Vict, 
 ment Act, 1859, and the Thames Watermen's and se^^sy yict. 
 Lightermen's Act, 1893, shall, except for the c. xxxi. 
 purposes of sections fifty-four sixty-six and sixty- 
 seven of the first-mentioned Act, be the limits of 
 the Port of London as defined hy this Act ; and ■ 
 (6) the Port Authority may by byelaw vary the provisions 
 of sections fifty-six to sixty of the Watermen's and 
 Lightermen's Amendment Act, 1869, and Part VI. 
 of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, with respect 
 to the qualifications to be possessed by applicants 
 for lightermen's and watermen's licences and certifi- 
 cates and the conditions on which such liceaces or 
 certificates are to be granted or renewed, and as 
 from the date on which any such byelaw comes into 
 operation those provisions shall be repealed to such 
 extent as may be specified in the byelaw; but no 
 such byelaw shall so vary those provisions as to 
 authorise the grant of a licence or certificate to a 
 person who has not for a period of at least two 
 years been engaged in working on a craft or boat 
 in the Port of London; and 
 (c) an appeal shall lie to the Board of Trade instead of 
 to a court of summary jurisdiction against a refusal 
 by the Port Authority to register any craft or boat, 
 or against the revocation by the Port Authority of 
 any certificate or licence relating to any craft or 
 boat; and 
 {d) at the end of section three hundred and eleven of 
 the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (which exempts 
 certain craft from the provisions of sections fifty-four 
 and sixty-six of the Watermen's and Lightermen's 
 Amendment Act, 1859), there shall be added the 
 words, "or to any lighters on a voyage commencing 
 " or ending at any place eastward or westward of the 
 " limits of that Act, whether or not goods are in 
 " the course of the voyage taken in or discharged 
 " at any place within those limits," and the expres- 
 sion " limits of that Act," as used in that section as 
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 A.D. 1908. ^^ amended, means . the limits of that Act for the 
 
 — purposes of the said sections fifty-four and sixty - 
 
 six ; and 
 
 {e) so much of any such enactment as limits the fees 
 which may be imposed in respect of the registration 
 or licensing of craft and boats, shall be repealed, but 
 the fees so imposed shall not exceed such as may be 
 allowed by a Provisional Order made by the Board 
 of Trade as soon as practicable after the passing of 
 this Act or any Provisional Order made subsequently 
 varying the same, or, until such first mentioned 
 Provisional Order is confirmed, by an order made for 
 the purpose by the Board of Trade ; and 
 
 (/) the provisions of the Thames Watermen's and Lighter- 
 men's Act, 1893, as amended by this Act — 
 
 (i) so far as they relate to craft, shall extend 
 to all lighters, barges, and other like craft for 
 carrying goods, and to steam-tugs ; and 
 
 (ii) BO far as they relate to boats, shall extend 
 to all boats, wherries, and other such vessels 
 (including river steamboats) let for hire for 
 carrying persons, 
 
 navigating either wholly or partly within the limits 
 of that Act as so amended, except such as lire 
 expressly exempted from those provisions or as 
 are employed solely in voyages extending entirely 
 through those limits without taking in or dis- 
 charging goods or embarking or disembarking pas- 
 sengers within those limits ; but section seven of 
 that Act, as so amended, shall not apply to a craft 
 navigating occasionally or exceptionally only within 
 those limits, and where a certificate has been granted 
 57 & 58 Vict. under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as to the 
 
 *'■ ^- number of passengers which any river steamboat 
 
 is fit to carry, that number shall be the number of 
 persons which she shall be licensed to carry under 
 the said Act as so amended; and 
 
 {g) in considering the fitness of a craft or boat for 
 carrying goods or persons for the purposes of section ' 
 sixteen of the Thames "Watermen's and Lighter- 
 men's Act, 1893, the Port Authority shall take into 
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 consideration the condition as respects accommo- A.D. 1908. 
 dation, sanitary arrangements, and otherwise of the 
 craft or boat having regard to the purposes for which 
 the craft or boat is intended to be employed; and 
 
 (h) the power of making byelaws under the Thames 
 Watermen's and Lightermen's Act, 1893, shall 
 include a power of making byelaws regulating the 
 equipment of craft or aoy class of craft navigated 
 within the limits of that Act as amended by this 
 Act. 
 
 12. — (1) Every person possessing such qualifications as the Provisions 
 •Court of the Watermen's Company may by byelaw prescribe ^^^to^i'^e- 
 
 r J J J J r men and as 
 
 shall as from the appointed day be qualified to be elected a to Sunday 
 freeman of the Company. ferries and 
 
 '^ •> other chari- 
 
 (2) So much of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Amend- ties of the 
 
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 ment Act, 1859, as relates to Sunday ferries and the appointment Company, 
 and licensing of watermen or lightermen to ply on Sundays, shall 
 as from the appointed day be repealed, and the Port Authority 
 shall pay to the Watermen's Company in respect of any Sunday 
 ferry established under that Act, and existing at the passing of 
 this Act, such sum as, in default of agreement, may be determined 
 by an arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (3) Penalties and forfeitures paid to the Port Authority 
 under section ninety of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Amend- 
 ment Act, 1859, as applied by this Act, shall be applied by the 
 Port Authority as part of their general funds, and the Port 
 Authority shall pay to the Watermen's Company in respect of 
 the loss of such penalties and forfeitures such sum as, failing 
 agreement, may be determined by an arbitrator appointed by the 
 Board of Trade. 
 
 (4) The sums to be so paid to the Watermen's Company shall 
 be paid into and form part of and be held on the trusts affecting 
 the Poor's Pund of the Watermen's Company. 
 
 (5) If the Charity Commissioners are at anytime of opinion 
 that by reason of any alteration in the constitution or nature of 
 the Watermen's Company or the qualifications to be possessed 
 by freemen, the trusts affecting the Poor's Pund of the Company 
 require to be modified, the Charity Commissioners may, either on 
 the application of the Watermen's Company or without any such 
 application, establish a scheme under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 
 1853 to 1894, regulating the application and administration of 
 
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 A.D. 1908. the Poor's Fund, regard being had to the purposes to which that 
 — fund is at the passing of this Act applicable. 
 
 Mnancial Provisions. 
 Port rates on 13. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, as from 
 
 S^°^^- such day as may be fixed by the Board of Trade not being more 
 
 than thirteen weeks after the Provisional Order embodying the 
 schedule mentioned in subsection (2) of this section has been 
 confirmed by Parliament, all goods imported from parts beyond 
 the seas or coastwise into the Port of London or exported to 
 parts beyond the seas or coastwise from that port, shall, subject 
 to any exemptions or rebates which may be contained in a 
 Provisional Order under this section or allowed by the Port' 
 Authority, be liable to such port rates as the Port Authority may 
 fix, not exceeding such rates as may be specified in any Provisional 
 Order, made by the Board of Trade for the time being in force, 
 but the port rates charged by the Port Authority shall at all times 
 be charged equally to all persons in respect of the same descrip- 
 tions of goods under the like circumstances, and shall be charged 
 separately from any other dues payable to the Port Authority : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (a) Nothing in this section shall authorise the Port 
 Authority to charge lower port rates in respect of 
 goods to be discharged from a vessel in a dock gf 
 the Port Authority, or to be landed on the premises 
 of or warehoused with the Port Authority, by 
 reason only that the goods are to be so discharged, 
 landed, or warehoused ; 
 (6) The Provisional Order under this section shall provide 
 for exempting from such rates goods imported for 
 transhipment only, or which remain on board the 
 ship in which they were imported for conveyance 
 therein to another port, and may determine what 
 goods are for the purposes of such exemption to be 
 treated as goods imported for transhipment only. 
 (2) Within six months after the appointed day the Port 
 Authority shall submit to the Board of Trade a schedule 
 of maximum port rates on goods, and tlie Board of Trade shall 
 embody the schedule in a Provisional Order made for the pur- 
 poses of this section, either without modifications or with such 
 modifications as the Board think fit, and, if the Port Authoritv 
 fail within such period as aforesaid to submit to the Board of 
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 Trade sucli a schedule, the Board shall themselves prepare and A.D. 1908. 
 embody in such a Provisional Order a schedule of maximum port 
 rates on goods : 
 
 Provided that the rates specified in the Schedule shall be 
 such that, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, the amount 
 of revenue produced thereby will, with the other receipts on 
 revenue account of the Port Authority, be sufficient to meet the 
 expenditure on all the purposes to which the receipts of the 
 Port Authority on revenue account are by this Act to be applied 
 and to provide a reasonable margin for contingencies. 
 
 (3) If in each of two successive years the aggregate amount 
 received from port rates on goods exceeds one-thousandth part 
 of the aggregate value of the goods imported into and exported 
 from the Port of London from and to parts beyond the seas in 
 the year, or, if the amount received from port rates on goods 
 discharged from or taken on board ships not within the premises 
 of a dock of the Port Authority exceeds one three-thousandth part 
 of the said aggregate value, it shall be the duty of the Port 
 Authority to take the necessary steps to prevent the continuance 
 of the excess, including, if necessary, an application to Parliament 
 to provide them with further means of meeting their financial 
 obligations. 
 
 (4) A Provisional Order under this section may provide for 
 the method of the collection and recovery of port rates on goods 
 imposed under this section, and may for that purpose incorporate 
 
 all or any of the provisions of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers lo All Vict. 
 Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to the collection and recovery of **■ 
 rates, so far as they relate to rates on goods, but shall provide 
 that in the event of the owner or consignee of any goods liable 
 to pay any port rates to which those goods are subject under this 
 section not having paid those rates by the time when the goods 
 are ready to be discharged, the owner or master of the vessel in 
 which the goods are carried may himself pay such rates, and 
 thereupon shall have a lien on the goods and all the rights and 
 powers in respect of the same as he would have under Part VII. 
 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of unpaid freight 
 or other charges, and where the goods are to be delivered to a 
 public wharfinger that he may pay such rates on behalf of the 
 owner or consignee of the goods, and thereupon shall have the 
 like lien on the goods as he would have in respect of charges 
 for the safe custody of the goods ; and such Provisional Order 
 may authorise the making of special arrangements respecting 
 the time and method of payment of port rates on goods by any 
 
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 A.D. 1908. persons who at frequent intervals become liable to pay those 
 rates, whether on their own account or on account of any 
 other persons. 
 
 (5) Eor the purpose of this section goods shall not be treated 
 as having been imported or exported coastwise unless imported 
 from or exported to a place seaward of a line drawn from 
 Eeculvers Towers to Colne Point, being a line determined by 
 the Treasury in pursuance of the power, conferred upon them 
 39 & 40 Vict, by section one hundred and forty of the Customs Consolidation 
 c. 36. ^g^^ 1876, or any line that may be substituted therefor by the 
 
 Treasury in pursuance of such power as aforesaid : , 
 
 Provided that with respect to goods originally imported from 
 a place seaward of the said line to a place' westward of the said 
 line and thence imported into the Port of Londoii, and with 
 respect to goods exported from the Port of London to a place 
 westward of the said line and thence exported to a place seaward 
 of the said line, such goods shall for the purposes of this subsection 
 be considered as having been imported from or exported to a 
 place seaward of the said line, and not from or to a place 
 westward of the said line, unless they are landed at the latter 
 place, but the authority having jurisdiction in the port of such 
 intermediate place shall, if so required by the Port Authority, 
 collect and pay over to the Port Authority the port rates to which 
 the goods would have been liable had they been imported direct 
 to or exported direct from the Port of London, and for thaft 
 purpose shall have all such powers of collecting rates as are 
 by or under this section conferred on the Port Authority, and 
 shall be entitled to be repaid by that authority any expenses 
 properly incurred by them in the exercise of those powers. 
 
 Dock dues 14. The provisions contained in the enactments relating to 
 
 on vessels, ^jjg London and India Docks Company conferring on that com- 
 pany power to demand and take rates, rents, and sums in respect 
 of vessels entering, lying in, or departing from the docks, basins, 
 cuts, or entrances of that company, or granting any exemptions 
 or immunities from any such rates, rents, or sums, shall continue 
 to apply in respect of vessels entering, lying in, departing from, 
 or otherwise using the docks, basins, cuts, or entrances and shall 
 also apply in respect of vessels entering, lying in, departing from, 
 or otherwise using docks, basins, cuts, or entrances constructed 
 by the Port Authority under this Act, or transferred from any 
 other dock company to the Port Authority by this Act, and 
 shall as respects docks, basins, cuts, or entrances so transferred 
 be substituted for the provisions as to rates and other charges on 
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[8 Edw. 7.J Port of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 vessels contained in the enactments relating to the companies A.D. 1908. 
 whose undertakings have been so transferred: 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a) In the case of the undertaking of the Surrey Com- 
 mercial Dock Company, this provision shall not 
 apply to vessels passing along the canal of that 
 company, and not otherwise using the docks of 
 that company when transferred; and 
 (5) Nothing in this section shall be construed as extending 
 any limitation on the immunities conferred by sec- 
 tion twenty-eight of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers 
 Clauses Act, 1847, to the case of any dock, basia, cut, 
 or entrance to which that section applied without 
 limitatixjn at the time of the passing of this Act. 
 
 15. — (1) The Port Authority shall not make any agreement, Prohibition 
 nor shall they renew any agreement subsisting at the appointed of preferen- 
 day by which any preferential dues or allowances on vessels or charges, 
 goods, or for discharging the same, are or may be provided for, but, 
 subject and without prejudice to any express statutory provision 
 and to any agreements which may be subsisting at the appointed 
 day, all dues imposed by the Port Authority in exercise of the 
 powers transferred to or conferred on them by or under this Act, 
 shall be charged equally in respect of all vessels of the same 
 description carrying the same description of goods under the same 
 circumstances or, as the case may be, in respect of all goods of 
 the same description under the same circumstances in the same 
 dock. 
 
 (2) This provision shall as from the appointed day be sub- 
 stituted for the provisions contained in the Acts of the several 
 dock companies relating to equality of charges. 
 
 16. There shall be established a port fund, and all receipts Port fund. 
 of the Port Authority shall be carried to that fund, and all pay- 
 ments by the Port Authority shall be made out of that fund. 
 
 17. — (1) As from the appointed day any debentures, debenture Security for 
 stock, mortgage debts, or other charges, the liability for which is [.''^"jf'f"®*^ 
 by or under this Act transferred to the Port Authority, secured 
 on the whole or any part of the undertaking or revenue of a 
 dock company, or on the lower navigation fund or any revenue 
 of the Conservators, shall, with the interest thereon, be, by virtue 
 of this enactment, secured in like manner on the port fund ; 
 and any debentures, debenture stock,, mortgage debts, or other 
 charges secured on any specific property of any such company or 
 
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 A.D. 1908. the Conservators, the liability for whicli is so transferred, shall 
 remain charged on that property; and any dehenture holder, 
 holder of debenture stock, mortgagee or other person secured, 
 shall have the same rights and remedies, as nearly as may be, 
 against the Port Authority, and against the port fund or any 
 specific property charged, as he would have had against the 
 company or the Conservators, and against the undertaking, lower 
 navigation fund, or revenue, or the specific property charged, if 
 this Act had not been passed. 
 
 (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to the 
 substitution of A port stock for Thames Conservancy A deben- 
 ture stock, the Port Authority may agree with the holder of 
 any such debentures, mortgagee, or other person secured for the 
 substitution of such amount of port stock of such class as may 
 be agreed for the debentures, mortgage, or other security. 
 
 Powers of 18. — (1) The Port Authority may borrow money for the 
 
 borrowing. purpose of— 
 
 {a) raising any money payable in respect of the transfer of 
 the undertaking of any dock company under this Act ; 
 
 (6) purchasing, redeeming, or paying off any debentures^ 
 mortgage debt, or other charge the liability for which 
 is transferred to the Port Authority by or under this 
 Act; 
 
 (c) raising any money payable in respect of the transfer, 
 
 under this Act of any undertaking affording or 
 intended to afford accommodation or facilities for 
 loading, unloading or warehousing goods in the Port 
 of London; 
 
 [d) dredging and otherwise improving the river ; 
 
 {e) constructing works for improving the accommodation and 
 facilities of the Port of London, or acquiring land for 
 any such work ; 
 
 (/) P^yiiig ^'^7 compensation payable under this Act other- 
 wise than by way of annuity ; 
 
 and, with the consent of the Board of Trade, for the purpose of 
 any payment by the Port Authority or of any work or other 
 thing which the Port Authority are authorised to execute or do, 
 and which or the cost of which ought, in the opinion of the 
 Board of Trade, to be spread over a term of years. 
 
 (2) Money borrowed under this section may be borrowed in 
 such manner as the Board of Trade may by order direct, and 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] ToH of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 such money and the interest thereon shall he charged on the a.D, 1908. 
 port fund or on such property or revenues of the Port Authority, 
 and in such manner as the Board of Trade may sanction. 
 
 (3) Any money borrowed ungler this Act, if borrowed for 
 the purpose of — 
 
 (a) raising any" money payable in respect of the transfer of 
 the undertaking of any dock company under this 
 Act ; or 
 (6) purchasing, redeeming, or paying off any debentures, 
 
 mortgage debt, or other charge ; or 
 (c) raising any money payable in respect of the transfer 
 under this Act of any undertaking affording or 
 intended to afford accommodation or facilities for 
 loading, unloading, or warehousing goods in the Port 
 of London; or 
 (t?) constructing any works for improving the accommoda- 
 tion and facilities of the Port of London (other than 
 dredging) or acquiring land for any such work; 
 
 shall be repaid within such period not exceeding ninety years, 
 and, if borrowed for any other purpose, shall be repaid within such 
 period not exceeding sixty years, from the date of the borrowing 
 as the Port Authority with the consent of the Board of Trade 
 may, having regard to the circumstances of each particular case, 
 determine. 
 
 (4) For the purpose of paying off a loan raised under this 
 Act, the Port Authority shall have the like powers of re-borrowing 
 as a county council have under section sixty-nine of the Local 51 & 52 Vict. 
 Q-overnment Act, 1888, and the provisions of that section so far ''• *1' 
 as they relate to re-borrowing shall apply as if they were herein 
 re-enacted and in terms made applicable to the Port Authority 
 and to the security on which the Port Authority are by or under 
 this Act authorised to borrow. 
 
 19. — (1) Por the purpose of enabling the Port Authority to issue of 
 raise money which they are authorised to borrow, and to issue po'tstoc'^- 
 any port stock which, by or under the provisions of this Act, is 
 to be, or may be, issued, the Port Authority may create stock, to 
 be called Port of London Stock, and in this Act referred to as 
 port stock. 
 
 (2) The port stock so created shall consist of A port stock 
 bearing interest at three per cent., and B port stock bearing 
 interest at four per cent, per annum, and, if the Port Authority 
 
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 A.D. 1908. SO determine, of other classes of port stock ranking pari passu 
 with B port stock and bearing interest at such rate as the Port 
 Authority may resolve. 
 
 (3) A port stock and the interest thereon, and subject thereto 
 all other port stock and the interest thereon, shall be charged on 
 the port fund and on all the revenues of the Port Authority. 
 
 (4) Subject to the provisions of this Act all port stock 
 created by the Port Authority under the powers of this Act 
 shall be issued, transferred, dealt with, and redeemed in accord- 
 ance with regulations to be made by an order of the Board of 
 Trade prior to the issue of any such port stock, or such other 
 regulations as the Board oE Trade may from time to time by 
 order prescribe, and such regulations may without prejudice to 
 the generality of the above provision provide for the consent 
 of limited owners, and for the application of the Acts relating 
 to stamp duties and to cheques, and for the disposal of un- 
 claimed dividends, and may apply for the purposes of this 
 section with or without modifications any enactments of the 
 
 38 & 39 Vict. Local Loans Act, 1875, and the Acts amending the same, and 
 "■ of any Act relating to stock issued by the County Council of 
 
 London, or by the corporation of any municipal borough. 
 
 Provided nevertheless that the regulations to be made as 
 aforesaid — 
 
 {a) shall authorise the holders of port stock of any class or 
 classes of an aggregate nominal value of not less 
 than five hundred thousand pounds in respect of the 
 payment of interest on which the Port Authority 
 have made default for a period of not less than three 
 months to apply to the High Court for the appoint- 
 ment of one or more receivers and managers of the 
 revenues, property, and undertaking of the Port 
 Authority ; and 
 
 (6) shall not make A port stock or B port stock redeem- 
 able before the expiration of twenty years from the 
 appointed day; and 
 
 (c) shall require at least six months' notice of intention to 
 redeem port stock to be given; and 
 
 {d) shall provide for the interest on A and B port stock 
 
 being paid half-yearly and shall fix the date for the 
 
 first payment of interest on A port stock not later 
 
 than the first day of July nineteen hundred and nine 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 and the date for the first payment of interest on B port A.D. 1908. 
 stock not later than the first day of August nineteen 
 hundred and nine. 
 
 (5) The total amount of port stock created under this Act 
 and for the time heing outstanding shall not, unless Parliament 
 otherwise determines, exceed by more than five million pounds 
 the amount of port stock issued as the consideration for or in 
 connection with the transfer of the undertakings of the dock 
 companies. 
 
 20. — (1) The Port Authority shall, in accordance with regu- Provisions as 
 lations made by the Board bf Trade, by the creation of one or to discharge 
 more sinking or redemption funds or otherwise, make proyision ' 
 
 for — 
 
 (a) the redemption within a period of ninety years from the 
 date of the transfer of the undertaking of any dock 
 company of the amount of any port stock issued by 
 the Port Authority as consideration for or in connection 
 with that transfer, or issued by the Port Authority in 
 substitution for any debentures, mortgages, or other 
 securities of the company the liability for which is 
 transferred to the Port Authority by this Act ; and 
 
 (6) the redemption within a period of sixty years from the 
 
 date of the substitution, of any port stock issued under 
 this Act by the Port Authority in substitution for any 
 Thames Conservancy A debenture stock; and 
 
 (c) the repayment within the periods within which they are 
 under this Act to be repaid of any sums borrowed 
 by the Port Authority under this Act : 
 
 Provided that, as respects any stock issued or money borrowed, 
 the pmod for the redemption or repayment of which is or may 
 be ninety years, the Port Authority shall not, during the first 
 ten years of the period allowed for redemption or repayment, be 
 required to make any payments into any sinking or redemption 
 fund for or otherwise towards the redemption or repayment of 
 the stock or loan. 
 
 (2) Any regulations made by the Board of Trade under this 
 section, so far as they relate to the repayment of any loans, may 
 apply with or without modifications any enactments of the Local 
 ijoan Acts, 1875, and the Acts amending that Act, and may 
 contain such other provisions as appear to the Board of Trade 
 necessary or proper, and shall have effect as if they were enacted 
 in this Act. 
 
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[Oh. 68.J Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 21. The receipts of the Port Authority on reyenue account 
 
 OrdeM^ ill any year shall be applied to the following purposes in the 
 
 which re- following Order : — 
 
 venue to be 
 
 applied. ^^ rpjig payment of working and establishment expenses and 
 
 the cost of the maintenance of the port, and of the 
 execution and performance of the powers and duties 
 of the Port Authority (including amongst other things 
 payments on account of pensions, superannuation allow- 
 ances, and compensation payable to oflBcers and servants) 
 properly chargeable to revenue account : 
 
 (2) The payment of interest on* A port stock and any arrears 
 
 thereof : 
 
 (3) The payment of interest on other classes of port stock 
 
 and any arrears thereof: 
 
 (4) The payment of interest on any loan raised by the Port 
 
 Authority otherwise than by the issue of port stock : 
 
 (5) The payment of any sums required under this Act to be 
 
 paid into any sinking or redemption fund, or otherwise 
 towards the discharge of any capital liability : 
 
 (6) The payment into the reserve fund created under this 
 
 Act of any sums required by this Act to be paid 
 
 into that fund; 
 and the balance, if any, shall be applicable to such purposes and 
 in such manner, for the benefit of the port, as the Port Autho^ty 
 may determine : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a) The Port Authority shall be entitled at the end of the 
 year to carry forward such sum as may be reason- 
 ably necessary for meeting current expenses ; and , 
 
 (5) The payment of interest on any debentures, debenture 
 stock, mortgage debts, and other charges, the liability 
 for which is by this Act transferred to the Port 
 Authority, and the payment of interest on and 
 the repayment of such temporary advances as the 
 Port Authority are by this Act authorised to obtain 
 with a view to supplying funds immediately on and 
 for five years after entering on the undertakings of 
 the dock companies shall, so long as payable, rank 
 before the payment of interest on A port stock ; and 
 
 {c) If the Board of Trade so direct, the payment of 
 interest on a temporary loan, repayable in a period 
 not exceeding two years (other than such a tempo- 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.J Tort of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 rary advance as last aforesaid) shall rank pari passu a.D. 1908. 
 with the payment of interest on any class of port " 
 stock; and 
 {d) The certificate of the auditor of the accoiints of the 
 Port Authority, subject to such variations as the 
 Board of Trade may allow, shall be conclusive as 
 to the amount available for any of the purposes 
 aforesaid. 
 
 22.-!— (1) The Port Authority shall carry to a reserve fund Eeserve 
 such part of the receipts on revenue account as is available ^""'^• 
 for the purpose until the fund amounts to one million pounds, 
 and, if the fund is subsequently reduced below that amount, the 
 Port Authority shall carry to the fund so much of any such 
 receipts as is required to restore the fund to that amount and 
 is available for the purpose. 
 
 (2) The reserve fund so formed shall be applicable only 
 towards meeting any deficiency on revenue account in any year. 
 Provided that, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Board 
 of Trade that it is expedient to apply any part of it to any 
 other purpose, *the Board may by order authorise the Port 
 Authority to apply so much thereof as may be specified in the 
 order to such other purpose, subject, however, to such conditions 
 (if any) as may be specified in the order. 
 
 (3) The sums paid into the reserve fund shall be invested 
 in the prescribed manner. 
 
 23. — (1) The Port Authority shall at the beginning of every Power of 
 financial year of the Port Authority submit to the Board of Trade J^oard of 
 
 xrSids to 
 
 an estimate of the receipts and expenditure of the Port Authority order in- 
 during that financial year, whether on account of property, dues, crease of 
 
 1 ,T_ . dues. 
 
 loans, or otherwise. 
 
 (2) If the Board of Trade are satisfied that the receipts 
 of the Port Authority on revenue account in any year are likely 
 to be insufficient to meet the charges payable out of revenue in 
 that year, or that the receipts of the Port Authority on revenue 
 account in the last preceding year were insufficient to meet the 
 charges payable out of revenue in that year, the Board may make 
 an order requiring the Port Authority to levy any additional or 
 increase any existing dues which they are authorised to levy to 
 such extent and for such period as the Board may specify in the 
 order, and the Port Authority shall comply with the order so 
 made, so however that neither the additional nor the increased 
 dues shall exceed the maxima allowed by law. 
 
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[Oh. 68.] Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 24. — (1) As soon as may be after the end of each, financial 
 
 Accounts y®^^ °^ ^^^ ^oti Authority the accounts of the Port Authority, 
 and audit. and any committee appointed by them, and of their oflBcers, shall 
 be made up to the end. of that year and shall be in such form 
 and contain such particulars as may for the time being be 
 prescribed by the Board of Trade, and shall be audited by an 
 auditor appointed by the Board, of Trade : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 {a) the regulations made by the Board of Trade shall 
 provide for the accounts of all sums expended by 
 the Port Authority in erecting, maintaining, and 
 managing warehouses, and of all receipts in respect 
 of the warehousing of goods, being kept distinct 
 from the other accounts of the Port Authority, and 
 for those accounts being audited as a separate section 
 of the accounts of the Port Authority ; and 
 
 (6) in prescribing the form of accounts the Board of Trade 
 shall have regard to the desirability of showing 
 separately, so far as practicable, 'such items of 
 receipts and expenditure on capital and revenue 
 account as are wholly or mainly attributable to the 
 dock undertakings of the Port Authority, and in 
 particular the regulations shall provide that all 
 receipts from port rates on goods discharged froia 
 or taken on board ships not within the dock pre- 
 mises of the Port Authority shall be shown sepa- 
 rately from the receipts from port rates on goods 
 discharged from or taken on board ships within 
 such premises. 
 
 (2) The Port Authority shall give to the auditor access to 
 such books and documents as ' are necessary for the purposes of 
 the audit, and shall when required furnish to him all vouchers 
 and information requisite for that purpose, and shall afford to 
 him all facilities for the proper execution of his duty. 
 
 (3) If the auditor reports to the Board of Trade that the 
 Port Authority have declined or neglected to comply with any 
 of his recommendations or requirements, the Board may, if 
 they think fit, after giving the Port Authority an opportunity 
 of being heard, make an order directing the Port Authority to 
 comply with such recommendations and requirements, with or 
 without modification, as may be specified in the order. 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Tort of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.J 
 
 (4) Within fourteen days after completion of tie audit tlie A.D. 1908. 
 Port Authority shall publish an abstract of the accounts, together 
 
 with any report of the auditor thereon, in some one or more 
 London newspapers. 
 
 (5) The remuneration of the auditor shall be such as the 
 Board of Trade direct, and that remuneration and all expenses 
 incurred by him in or about the execution of his duties, to such 
 an amount as the Board of Trade approve, shall be paid by the 
 Port Authority. 
 
 25. If the Board of Trade at any time consider it desirable Power oC 
 that estimates should be submitted, and the accounts of the Port "°^^g \^ ^g. 
 Authority made up and audited, more than once a year, the quire esti- 
 Board may make an order to that effect, and may by the order ^^f^^j^^jg 
 make such modifications in the provisions of this Act relating than once a 
 to the submission of estimates and the making up and auditing y^*""- 
 of the accounts of the Port Authority as may be necessary to 
 give effect to the order. 
 
 Miscellomeous. 
 
 26. — (1) The Port Authority shall, for the purposes of Powers 
 their powers and duties under this Act, or otherwise with respect Authority 
 to the administration, preservation or improvement of the Port to acquire 
 of London, have power— moteBrn's, 
 
 («) to manage, alter, remove, or enlarge any building, and **'• 
 to alienate any land or buildings transferred to the 
 Port Authority under this Act or otherwise vested in 
 them ; and 
 (6) to acquire, hire, erect, and furnish such buildings and 
 
 ofl&ces as they may require; and 
 (<?) to acquire, purchase, or take on hire, or exchange land ; 
 and 
 
 (d) to appoint a clerk or secretary, treasurer, and such other 
 
 ofl&cers as they may require; and 
 
 [e) to promote or oppose any Bill in Parliament, and prosecute 
 
 or defend legal proceedings. 
 
 Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as 
 conferring on the Port Authority power — 
 
 (i) in the case of any land or buildings trarsf erred to the 
 Port Authority by this Act or otherwise vested in 
 them subject to any right or interest therein of any 
 
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[Ch. 68.] Fort of London Act, 190S. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 AJ). 1908. other person or to the performance of any obligation in 
 
 force at the date of alienation and to be performed 
 ' by the Port Authority under any Act, deed, agreement, 
 or other instrument, to alienate such land or buildings 
 otherwise than subject to such right, interest, or obli- 
 gation; or 
 
 (ii) in the case of land or buildings vested in them subject to 
 any restriction on alienation, to alienate the land or 
 buildings in contravention of that restriction. 
 
 (2) For the purposes of this section, sections one hundred 
 and seventy-six and one hundred and seventy-eight of the Public 
 
 38 & 39 Vict. Health Act, 1875, shall, except so far as they relate to the 
 **■ ^^' acquisition of land otherwise than by agreement, apply as if they 
 
 were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of the Port Authority 
 
 for a local authority. 
 
 (3) The clerk or secretary of the Port Authority, or any 
 officer or member thereof acting under a general or special 
 resolution of the Port Authority, may authorise the institution 
 and carrying on or the defence of any proceeding which the 
 Port Authority are authorised to institute, carry on, or defend. 
 Any information or complaint under the provisions of this Act 
 or any other Act, whether local or general, applying to the Port 
 A.uthority, or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder, may 
 be laid or made by an officer or member of the Port Authority 
 or by the clerk or secretary. 
 
 29 & 30 Vict. (4) The Superannuation (Metropolis) Act, 1866, shall apply 
 
 **■ ' to the Port Authority as if the Port Authority were an 
 
 authority mentioned in that Act, and the Port Authority may 
 grant superannuation allowances or pensions to any officers and 
 servants in their employ, either in accordance with that Act as 
 so applied, or by the extension to any such officers and servants 
 of the provisions of any pension scheme to which the authority 
 are a party as successors of any dock company, or by the estab- 
 lishment of any other pension scheme approved by the Board of 
 Trade, and the Port Authority may also promotes, assist, or 
 contribute towards the expenses of any institution which appears 
 to the authority to be for the benefit of any such officers or 
 servants either whUst in their employ or after they have ceased 
 to be so, but nothing in this section shall affect the rights of 
 existing officers and servants taken over by the Port Authority 
 under this Act. 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 ,, , 27.— (1) On complaint being made to, the Board of Trade A.D. 1908. 
 by any person interested that the Port Authority are acting in Po^^^f 
 a manner unfairly oppijes^ire to him by reason of the mode in Board of 
 which they carry on their dock or warehousing business, including conciliation 
 charges made in respect of such business, the Board, if they think 
 that there is a reasonable ground of complaint, shall call upon 
 the Port Authority for an explanation and shall endeavour to 
 settle amicably the differences between the complainant and the 
 Port Authority, and shall from time to time submit to Parliament 
 such reports with regard thereto as they think fit. 
 
 (2) For the purposes of this section, " person " shall include 
 any asspciation of persons which obtains a certificate from the 
 Board of Trade that it is a proper body to make a complaint. 
 
 (3) If the complaint is made on behalf of a trade or a section 
 of a trade by the London Chamber of Commerce or any other 
 representative association interested in the trade of the Port of 
 London which obtains a certificate from the Board of Trade that 
 it is a proper body to make such complaint, or relates to the 
 mode in which the Port Authority carry on their warehousing 
 business, the Board, if they are unable to settle the difference, 
 may, if they think fit, after giving any persons appearing to the 
 Board of Trade to be interested an opportunity of being heard, 
 make such order as in theit opinion the circumstances require. 
 
 28. — (1) The Port Authority shall take into consideration Kegulationof 
 the existing methods and conditions of engagement of workmen e"gag^»|e"t 
 employed in dock, riverside, and warehouse labour in connection labour, 
 with the Port of London, and shall, either by themselves or in 
 co-operation with other bodies or persons, by establishing or main- 
 taining or -assisting in the establishment or maintenance of offices, 
 waiting-rooms, and employment registers, and by the collection 
 and communication of information and otherwise, take such 
 steps as. they think best calculated to diminish the evils of casual 
 employment, and to promote the more convenient and regular 
 engagement of such workmen or any class thereof : 
 
 Provided that nothing in this section shall deprive any person 
 of any legal right which he would otherwise possess with regard 
 to the engagement of labour. 
 
 (2) The. Por,t Authority may make byelaws with respect to i 
 admission to, and thp ma;intenance of order in, such offices and 
 waiting rooms, and otherwise for the purpose of carrying this 
 section into effect. 
 
 C 2 31 
 
[Ch. 68.J Fort of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 29. — (1) The Port Authority shall, if so required by the 
 
 p ~rr . Secretary of State, provide and maintain to the satisfaction of 
 accommoda- the Secretary of State accommodation for the reception of 
 tion for alien ajjg^ passengers conditionally disembarked for the purpose of 
 5Edrrc 13 inspection, appeals, or otherwise, under the Aliens Act, 1905. 
 
 (2) On such accommodation being provided, the Port Autho- 
 rity may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, make 
 byelaws imposing on immigrant ships within the meaning of 
 that Act entering the Port of London tolls in respect of such 
 accommodation, and requiring the conditional disembarkation at 
 the place so provided of such alien passengers from immigrant 
 ships as the Secretary of State may by order direct, either generally 
 or as regards any special ships. 
 
 Duty of 30. The Port Authority shall as soon as may be after the 
 
 rtiorit^Ts t appointed day take into consideration the then existing surveys 
 surveys. of the bed and shore of the river and tidal waters within the 
 Port of London, and if in any respect the surveys are defective, 
 they shall, after consultation with the Admiralty and the Board 
 of Trade, take such steps as may be necessary for the purpose 
 of remedying such defects, and the Port Authority shall publish 
 and keep on sale at a reasonable price copies of any such 
 existing surveys as may be considered sufficient and of the 
 surveys so made. 
 
 Through 31. — (1) Any lines and sidings forming part of any dock 
 
 speTtofdock undertaking belonging to the Port Authority shall be deemed 
 
 railways. to be railways, and the Port Authority shall be deemed to be 
 
 a railway company for the purposes of such of the provisions 
 
 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1854 to 1888, as relate 
 
 to through rates : 
 
 Provided that the E/aUway and Canal Commission shall not 
 j&x such a through rate in any case in which it appears to them 
 that it would be unjust or inexpedient to do so. 
 
 (2) The classification of merchandise traffic annexed to the 
 Schedule to the Order confirmed by the Great Eastern Railway 
 Company Rates and Charges Order Confirmation Act, 1891, as 
 from time to time amended in pursuance of subsection. (11) of 
 51 & 52 Vict, section twenty -four of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, 
 shall apply to the Port Authority in respect of such lines and 
 sidings as aforesaid and the maximum rates and charges which 
 the Port Authority shall be entitled to charge and make in respect 
 32 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] :Bort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 of merchandise traffic on those lines and sidings shall he the rates A.D. 190S. 
 and charges specified in that schedule as so amended. 
 
 (3) Nothing in this section shall he construed as entitling the 
 Port Authority to he assessed to any rate or rated on a proportion 
 only of the value of such lines and sidings. 
 
 32. — (1) The port stock under this Act suhstituted for any Provisionu aa 
 stock shall he held in the same rights, on the same trusts, and ^ock!^"*"*^^ 
 suhject to the same powers, provisions, charges, and liabilities as 
 those in, on, or to which the stock was held immediately hefore 
 the suhstitution, and so as to give efFect to, and not to revoke, 
 any deed, will, or other instrument or testamentary or other dis- 
 position disposing of or affecting the stock, and every such deed, 
 will, instrument, or disposition shall take effect with reference 
 to the whole or a proportionate part, as the case may he, of the 
 suhstituted port stock. 
 
 (2) Trustees, executors and all other holders in any repre- 
 sentative or fiduciary capacity of any existing stock for which 
 port stock is substituted under this Act shall accept the port 
 stock issued in suhstitution therefor under this Act, and may 
 hold, dispose of, or otherwise deal with the substituted stock in 
 all respects as they might have held, disposed of, or otherwise 
 dealt with the stock for which it was suhstituted. 
 
 33. — (1) The Board of Trade may make such Provisional Provisiou. 
 Orders as may be required for the purposes of this Act, and ^ij^jj^"^"" 
 with respect to such Provisional Orders the provisions set out Orders, &c. 
 in the Pourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect. 
 
 (2) Any order, other than a Provisional Order, made by the 
 Board of Trade under this Act shall, whilst in force, have effect 
 as if enacted in this Act, but any such order made by the 
 Board of Trade may be varied by a subsequent order made in the 
 like manner and subject to the like conditions as the original 
 order. 
 
 (3) The Board of Trade, subject to the consent of the 
 Treasury, may fix the fees to be payable in respect of Provisional 
 Orders and orders made by the Board under this Act, and such 
 fees shall be paid by such authorities and persons as the Board 
 of Trade may determine. 
 
 (4) The Board of Trade may make regulations in relation to 
 applications for Provisional Orders and orders under this Act, and 
 the publication of notices and advertisements and the manner in 
 
 3 33 
 
[Oh. 68.] 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. which and the time within which representations and objections 
 with reference to the application are to be made, and the holding 
 of public inquiries in the cases in which public inquiries are 
 required to be held under this Act and in such other cases as 
 they may think advisable, and to any other matters of procedure 
 respecting the obtaining and granting of Provisional Orders and 
 orders under this Act. 
 
 Byelaws, 34. — (1) The provisions of sections one hundred and ninety- 
 
 three, one hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-five, 
 and two hundred of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, so far as 
 applied to the Port Authority by this Act, shall, subject to the 
 
 3Edw.7.c.3l. provisions of the Board of Agriculture and !Pisheries Act, 1903, 
 extend to all byelaws made by the Port Authority, whether made 
 in exercise of their powers as successors of the Conservators, or 
 of any dock com.pany, or of the Watermen's Company or the 
 court of that company, or otherwise. 
 
 (2) Sections fifty-five and one hundred and ninety-one of 
 the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, so far as they relate to 
 complaints of the operation of byelaws shall apply to all byelaws 
 made by the Port Authority or their predecessors whether made 
 under that Act or otherwise. 
 
 Mutual 35. All minute books, books of account, vouchers, maps, 
 
 rights as to^^ plans, and other documents transferred by this Act from the 
 documents. Conservators or the Watermen's Company to the Port Aut'.iority 
 shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection, free of 
 charge, of the Conservators or the Watermen's Company, as the 
 case may be, and all minute books, books of account, vouchers, 
 maps, plans, and other documents belonging to the Conservators 
 or the Watermen's Company and not so transferred shall at all 
 reasonable times be open to the inspection, free of charge, of 
 the Port Authority, and, if any question arises as to whether 
 any such documents are to be transferred to the Port Authority, 
 the question shall be decided by the Board of Trade. 
 
 36. The Port Authority shall make to the Board of Trade an 
 annual report of their proceedings, and this report shall be laid 
 annually before Parliament by the Board of Trade, and shall at 
 the same time be on sale at a reasonable charge to the public 
 at the ofB.ces of the Port Authority. The Port Authority shall 
 also give to the Board of Trade such returns, statistics, and 
 information, with respect to the exercise of the powers of the 
 Port Authority, as the Board of Trade may require. 
 34 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.J 
 
 37. A justice of the peace shall not be incapable of acting A.D. 1908, 
 in any case in which the Port Authority are a party by reason Q„aiifi^tion 
 only that as a payer of dues or the holder of port stock, or as of justices. 
 one of any other class of persons, he is liable to contribute to 
 or to be benefited by the port fund. 
 
 38. — (1) The Board of Trade Arbitrations, &c. Act, 1874, Provisions as 
 shall apply as if this Act were a special Act within the meaning * ^ ^a^e*!"'*^ 
 of the first-mentioned Act, and as if a public inquiry under this 37 & 33 Vict. 
 Act were an inquiry under that Act. ''■ '^^• 
 
 (2) All things required or authorised under this Act to be 
 done by, to, or before the Board of Trade, may be done by, to, 
 or before the President or a secretary or assistant secretary of the 
 Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President 
 of the Board. 
 
 (3) All documents purporting to be orders made by the Board 
 of Trade and to be sealed with the seal of the Board, or to be 
 signed by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, or by 
 any person authorised in that behalf by the President of the 
 Board, shall be received in evidence, and shall be deemed to be 
 «uch orders without further proof, unless the contrary is shown. 
 
 (4) A certificate, signed by the President of the Board of 
 Trade, that any order made or act done is the order or act of 
 the Board, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact so certified. 
 
 39. Every member of the Port Authority shall be exempt Exemption of 
 
 « . , members of ' 
 
 irom servmg on any jury. Port Authority 
 
 from service 
 , on juries. 
 
 Savings. 
 
 40. Nothing in this Act shall aflect the right of any Saving of 
 council or other authority or any person represented on the Port "S^* °* . 
 Authority to be heard against any Bill Provisional Order or to be heard 
 order promoted or applied for by the Port Authority. against Bills. 
 
 41. — (1) Nothing in this Act shall affect the limits of the Saving for 
 Port of London for Customs purposes, or abridge or affect in ***® Customs, 
 any way the powers of the Treasury in respect of the port 
 under the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876. 
 
 (2) Sections fourteen and fifteen of the Harbours, Docks, and 
 Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (which relate to the construction and 
 maintenance of works for the accommodation of the oflB.cers of 
 Customs), shall apply to the Port Authority in respect of any new- 
 docks constructed by them in pursuance of the powers conferred 
 
 C 4 35 
 
[Oh. 68.] 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Saving for 
 Admiralty. 
 
 Saving for 
 vessels and 
 goods pass- 
 ing through 
 the Port of 
 London. 
 
 Saving in 
 case of 
 damage 
 caused by 
 dredging. 
 
 by this Act as if they were incorporated in this Act, and shall 
 also as from the appointed day, apply to the Port Authority in 
 respect of all docks transferred to the Port Authority by this Act 
 which were constructed in pursuance of any special Act with, 
 which those sections are not incorporated — 
 
 (a) as if those sections had been so incorporated; and 
 
 (6) as if any watch-houses, boat-houses, huts or weighing 
 materials provided before the appointed day at those 
 docks by any predecessors of the Port Authority for 
 the accommodation of those officers had been pro- 
 vided in pursuance of the obligation imposed by those 
 sections : 
 
 Provided that nothing in this provision shall prejudice or 
 affect any right, or authority, or liability of the Commissioners of 
 Customs, or the Commissioners of Works, under any agreement 
 relating to any such watch-house, boat-house, hut or weighing 
 materials made before the passing of this Act between the Com- 
 missioners of Customs, or the Commissioners of Works, and any 
 predecessors of the Port Authority. 
 
 42. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect any rights, 
 powers, or privileges of the Admiralty or the King's harbour- 
 master or other officer of the Admiralty within the limits for 
 
 the time being of any dockyard port. 
 
 ■ 
 
 43. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as imposing 
 any dues on any vessel or on any goods carried therein by 
 reason only that the vessel passes through any part of the Port 
 of London on a voyage between places situate on the E/iver 
 Medway or the Eiver Swale and not within the Port of London 
 and any other places not within that port, or as imposing any 
 duties of tonnage on any vessel for passengers only plying 
 between places situate on those rivers and places within the 
 Port of London situate eastward of the said line drawn from 
 Yantlet Creek to the City Stone opposite Canvey Island. 
 
 44. — (1) The Port Authority shall make compensation to all 
 persons whose property or works are damaged by or in consequence 
 of any operations of the Port Authority in connection with 
 dredging or otherwise deepening and improving the channels 
 of the river within the Port of London, in any case where such 
 persons would have been entitled to damages if the operations had 
 been executed otherwise than in pursuance of statutory powers 
 36 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 68.] 
 
 and for the purposes of this provision the expression " person " A.D. 1908. 
 shall include the Crown and any Government Department. 
 
 (2) Any works of dredging and deepening carried out under 
 the powers of this Act which are within fifty yards of any part 
 of any property of or under the control of any Government 
 department, or any tunnel, bridge, pier, embankment, water 
 intake, sewage outfall, or other property of the London County 
 Council, or any main or tunnel of the Metropolitan Water Board, 
 shall be executed under the supervision and to the reasonable 
 satisfaction of the department or the engineer of the said 
 Council or Board, as the case may be. 
 
 (3) Any works of dredging and deepening carried out under 
 the powers of this Act which are within fifty yards of any part 
 of any bridge belonging to the Corporation or the Essex, Kent, 
 Middlesex or Surrey County Council or any railway company shall 
 be executed under the supervision and to the reasonable satisfac- 
 tion of the engineer of the Corporation, the County Council, 
 or the Company, as the case may be. 
 
 (4) The Port Authority shall not execute or carry out or 
 permit to be carried out any works of excavating, dredging, or 
 deepening, or operations of any kind in the bed or channel of the 
 River Thames so as to injure, endanger, or affect any part of the 
 Thames Tunnel, and, in the event of any injury or damage to the 
 said tunnel being caused directly or indirectly by or resulting 
 from any such works or operations, the Port Authority shall make 
 full compensation to the East London Railway Company and its 
 lessees as owners of the said tunnel in respect thereof. 
 
 (5) Any dispute or difference arising under this section shall 
 be settled by an arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (6) If a complaint is made to the Board of Trade by the 
 councils of not less than three riparian boroughs or urban districts 
 who appear to the Board to be interested, that by reason of the 
 exercise by the Port Authority of their powers of dredging the 
 depth of water in any of the reaches of the Thames within the 
 Port of London above Battersea Bridge has been so diminished 
 as seriously to inconvenience navigation or materially to lower 
 the surface of the water, the Board shall, if they think there 
 is reasonable cause for so doing, hold a local inquiry into the 
 matter and shall from time to time submit to Parliament such 
 reports with regard to any such inquiry and the remedy, if any, 
 which they recommend as they mav think fit. 
 
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[Oh. 68.J 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Saving for 
 the borough 
 
 45. — (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, 
 the provisions of sections ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-nine, 
 one hundred, one hundred and nine to one hundred and seven- 
 
 of Southend- ^gp^ Q^g hundred and nineteen to one hundred and thirty -four, 
 on-nea. </ ' 
 
 and so much of sections one hundred and ninety and one hundred 
 
 and ninety-one as relates to the regulation of bathing and the 
 
 fixing of the hours during which persons may bathe, of the Thames 
 
 Conservancy Act, 1894i, shall not apply in any area comprised 
 
 in the borough of Southend-on-Sea or between that borough and 
 
 a straight line drawn from the West Shoebury buoy to the most 
 
 easterly point of Oanvey Island. 
 
 (2) Nothing in this Act or in the Thames Conservancy Act, 
 1894, shall prejudice, lessen, afEect, or interfere with any powers," 
 rights, authorities, privileges, or property of the mayor, aldermen, 
 and burgesses of the borough of Southend-on-Sea under any Act 
 now in force. 
 
 (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as a recognition 
 of any right or interest of the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses 
 in any part of the bed or shore of the Thames. 
 
 46. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the 
 provisions of sections ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety -nine, one 
 hundred, one hundred and nine to one hundred and seventeen, 
 one hundred and nineteen to one hundred and thirty-four, and 
 so much of sections one hundred and ninety and one hundred 
 and ninety-one, as relates to the regulation of bathing and the 
 fixing of hours during which persons may bathe, of the Thames 
 Conservancy Act, 1894, shall not apply in the urban district of 
 Sheerness, including the foreshore opposite that district, nor as 
 respects any part of the bed of the River Thames within one 
 hundred yards from that foreshore. 
 
 Saving for 47. Nothing in this Act shall aflfect any rights of the rural 
 
 digtStof district of Sheppey existing at the appointed day with regard, to 
 Sheppejr. the construction of a sewer outfall in that district or the use of 
 such sewer outfall when constructed. 
 
 Saving for 
 the urban 
 district of 
 Sheerness. 
 
 48. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice, alter, or afEect the 
 iSbur"' and ^^S^^^^ °^ ^^^ London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Company 
 
 Saving for 
 London, 
 
 Southend 
 
 BaUwaj 
 
 Company. 
 
 under any Act of Parliament now in force or under any subsisting 
 agreements or instruments whatsoever made or entered into by the 
 London and India Docks Company or their predecessors in title 
 with the said railway company, but all obligations therein imposed 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Gh. 68.] 
 
 upon the London and India Books Company or their predecessors A.D. 1908. 
 in title shall be read and have effect as if the Port Authority — 
 were named in such Acts of Parliameut, agreements, or instru- 
 ments instead of the London and India Docks Company or their 
 predecessors in title. 
 
 Definitions, Repeal, Sfe. 
 49. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — Definitions, 
 
 The expression "Port of London" means the port withiu 
 the limits described in the Pifth Schedule to this Act : 
 
 The expression " appointed day " means the thirty-first day 
 of March one thousand nine hundred and nine, or such 
 earlier or later day as the Board of Trade may appoiut, 
 either generally or with reference to any particular pro- 
 vision of this Act, and different days may be appointed 
 for different purposes and different provisions of this Act, 
 whether contained in the same section or in different 
 sections, and for different companies and authorities : 
 
 The expression " undertaking " includes, in the case of 
 an undertaking transferred by this Act, all such property, 
 real and personal, including cash balances, reserve funds, 
 investments, and all other interest and rights in, to, and 
 out of the property, real and personal, and obligations, 
 and things in action, as may be in the possession of the 
 company, or belonging to them, immediately before the 
 date of transfer, and all books, accounts, and documents 
 relating thereto ; but discharged and freed from any 
 charge for securing any debenture stock of the company 
 and from any liabilities in respect of such stock : 
 
 The expression " the Corporation " means the Mayor, 
 Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London in 
 Common Council assembled : 
 
 The expression "the Trinity House" means the master, 
 wardens, and assistants of the guild, fraternity or brother- 
 hood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of 
 St. Clement in the parish of Leptford Strond, in the 
 county of Kent, commonly called the Corporation of 
 the Trinity House of Deptford Strond: 
 
 The expression " goods " includes live stock, minerals, and 
 merchandise of all descriptions : 
 
 The expression " dues " includes all duties of tonnage, port 
 rates on goods, registration fees, and other tolls, charges, 
 
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[Oh. 68.] Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. and dues payable to the Port Authority, whether in 
 
 respect of ships, goods, river craft, or otherwise : 
 
 The expression " vessel " includes ship, boat, lighter, and 
 craft of every kind, and whether navigated by steam 
 or otherwise: 
 
 The expression " ship " includes every description of vessel 
 used in navigation not propelled by oars : 
 
 The expression " river craft " means any tug, river steam- 
 boat, lighter, or barge registered under the Thames 
 Watermen's and Lightermen's Act, 1893, as amended 
 by the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, and this Act: 
 
 The expression "wharfinger" means the occupier of a 
 wharf, quay, warehouse, or granary adjoining the Port 
 of London mainly used for warehousing the goods 
 imported into the Port of London of persons other 
 than the occupier of such premises : 
 
 The expression " prescribed " means prescribed by regula- 
 tions made by the Board of Trade : 
 
 The liability of the Millwall Dock Company to the Millwall 
 Dock Equipment Company under an agreement dated 
 the twenty-second day of Pebruary one thousand nine 
 hundred and one shall be deemed to be a charge the 
 liability for which is transferred to the Port Authoritjf. 
 
 Bepeal. 50. The enactments mentioned in the Sixth Schedule to this 
 
 Act shall as from the appointed day be repealed to the extent 
 specified in the third column to that schedule : Provided that the 
 repeal of the words in section seven of the Thames Conservancy 
 5 Edw. 7 Act, 1905, mentioned in that schedule (which limit the period 
 o.xoviii. during which the increased duties of tonnage authorised by that 
 Act may be demanded and received) shall take effect as from the 
 first day of January one thousand nine hundred and nine, and 
 notwithstanding that the powers of the Conservators are not 
 transferred to the Port Authority until a later date. 
 
 Short title, 51. This Act may be cited as the Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 Trcmsitory Frovisions. 
 
 Adjustment 52. Such adjustments as may be required for the purposes 
 
 and^l^biU-^ of this Act shall be made between the Port Authority and the 
 ties. Conservators and between the Port Authority and the Watermen's 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 190S. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 Company, and section sixty-eight of the Local Government Act, a.D. 1908. 
 
 1894, shall apply to such adjustments in like manner as it applies 
 
 to adjustments required for the pui-poses of that Act : 
 
 Provided that references to the Board of Trade shall be 
 substituted for references to the Local Government Board, and 
 that the provisions as to borrowing and the application of capital 
 sums shall not apply to the Watermen's Company. 
 
 53. — (1) Until the appointed day the undertakings of the MuinteDance 
 several dock companies shall be maintained and carried on as of under- 
 heretofore in the ordinary course of business in as efficient a dock com- 
 condition as usual, but the amount distributed by way of dividend pames 
 on the stocks other than debenture stocks of any such company appointed 
 for the year one thousand nine hundred and eight or in the case day- 
 of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company for the last nine months 
 of that year shall not exceed^ the amount of one year's, or in the 
 case of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company nine months', 
 interest on the amount of the port stock to be substituted imder 
 this Act for those stocks. 
 
 (2) If the Port Authority think that any contract with 
 respect to any matter connected with the undertaking of any 
 such company made by the company subsequently to the date 
 of the introduction of the Bill for this Act was not reasonably 
 necessary in the ordinary course of the business of the company, 
 they may give notice in writing to the company to that effect 
 within six weeks after the appointed day. 
 
 (3) If the Port Authority give any such notice, it shall be 
 referred to an arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade to 
 determine whether or not the contract was reasonably necessary 
 in the ordinary course of the business of the company, and 
 the arbitrator shall determine whether, and to what extent, as 
 between the Port Authority and the company, any liability arising 
 thereunder is to be transferred to the Port Authority, or is to 
 continue as a liability of the company. 
 
 (4) Until the appointed day a dock company shall not, 
 without the previous consent in writing of the Board of Trade — 
 
 (a) sell, dispose of, or let for a longer period than one year, 
 any of its lands or buildings; 
 
 (6) apply any of its depreciation or renewal funds otherwise 
 than for tlie purposes for which those funds were 
 created and have hitherto been used, or make any 
 distribution out of any such fund or any reserve for 
 bad and doubtful debts among its stockholders or any 
 
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[Oh. 68.] Port of JLondon Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. class thereof, unless legally compelled., to do so for the 
 
 ~ purpose of paying interest on, any debenture stock; 
 
 (c) enter into any contract of any kind with shipowners, 
 merchants, or others, extending in date beyond the 
 thirty-first of December one thousand nine hundred 
 and nine ; 
 {d) raise any fresh capital, either directly or, in case of 
 the Millwall Dock Company, indirectly, by means of 
 any arrangement with the Millwall Dock Equipment 
 Company Limited ; 
 {e) undertake any expenditure on any new works, 
 (5) The accounts and balance sheet of each dock company 
 for the year one thousand nine hundred and eight, and also, if 
 the appointed day is later than the first day of January one 
 thousand nine hundred and nine, for the period between that 
 date and the appointed day, shall be audited by an auditor 
 appointed by the Board of Trade, and no sums shall be dis- 
 tributed by the company by way of dividend except such as are 
 certified by that auditor to be so distributable; and in any case 
 where the audit is not completed antil after the appointed day, 
 the Port Authority shall pay to the company such an amount 
 as may be certified by the auditor to be the balance representing 
 profits earned in respect of the period to which the audit relates 
 and available for immediate distribution as dividend : 
 
 Provided that — , 
 
 (a) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as pre- 
 venting a dock company which has been accustomed 
 to pay interim dividends on any of its stocks g,nd 
 actually paid such dividends in the year one thousand 
 nine hundred and seven from paying such dividends 
 during the year one thousand nine hundred and 
 eight so, however, that the amount paid, by way of 
 interim dividend on any such stock shall not exceed 
 the amount of the interest which would accrue 
 during a period equal to that in respect of which 
 the dividend is paid on the amount of port stock 
 which under this Act is to be substituted for that 
 stock ; and 
 (&) The amount paid by the Port Authority to any company 
 under this subsection when added to the amount 
 (if any) paid by the company by way of dividend 
 in respect of any part of the period to which the 
 audit relates shall not exceed the amount of interest 
 which would accrue on the amount of port stock 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Ch. 6Q..] 
 
 to be issued in substitution for the stocks other than a.D. 1908. 
 debenture stocks of the company during the like 
 period; and 
 (c) In the case of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company 
 the amount to be paid to the company in respect 
 of the year one thousand nine hundred and eight 
 shall be such an amount as when added to the 
 amount paid by the company by way of dividend 
 on its stocks in respect of the last nine months of 
 that year or any part of those nine months may 
 be certified by the auditor to be three-fourths of 
 the balance representing profits earned during that 
 year and available for immediate distribution as ■■ 
 dividend so, however, that those amounts when 
 added together shall not exceed nine months' interest 
 on the amount of port stock to be issued in sub- 
 stitution for the stocks other than the debenture 
 stock of the company, and the amount so payable 
 shall be paid whether or not the audit of the 
 accounts for that year have been completed before 
 the appointed day. 
 
 (6) If the amount certified by the auditor appointed by the 
 Board of Trade as available for distribution as dividend amongst 
 the stockholders of any dock company for the year one thousand 
 nine hundred and eight, or in the case of the Surrey Commercial 
 Dock Company, for the last nine months of that year, when added 
 to the amount (if any) paid by the company by way of dividends 
 in respect of any part of that year, or those nine months, is less 
 than one year's, or nine months', interest on the amount of port 
 stock to be substituted for the various stocks, other than deben- 
 ture stocks, of the company, the Port Authority shall pay to 
 the company — 
 
 (i) A sum equal to the deficiency ; or 
 
 (ii) A sum equal to the expense incurred by the Company 
 in respect of the negotiations with the Board of Trade 
 for the transfer of its undertaking or in connection 
 with the passing of the Bill for this Act; or 
 (iii) A sum of {a) in. tlie case of the London and India Docks 
 Company five thousand pounds ; (6) m the case of the 
 ; Surrey Commercial Dock Company three thousand 
 
 pounds; (c) in the case of the Millwall Dock Com- 
 pany two thousand pounds ; 
 Avhichever of the said sums shall be the least. 
 
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[Oh. 68.J 
 
 Fort of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Dissolution 
 of dock com. 
 panics. 
 
 Saving for 
 existing 
 watermen 
 and ap- 
 prentices. 
 
 (7) Any expenses incurred by the Board of Trade under 
 this section shall be paid by the Port Authority. 
 
 54. — (1) As soon as the port stock to be issued as com- 
 pensation for the transfer of the undertaking of a dock company 
 has been issued in accordance with this Act, the company shall 
 enter upon the liquidation of its affairs, and upon the conclusion 
 thereof shall be dissolved in manner provided with respect to 
 the company in the Second Schedule to this Act. 
 
 (2) The several provisions and powers contained in the 
 several special Acts of the dock companies shall remain and be 
 of full force as regards the dock companies respectively, so far 
 as the same are necessary or required for the purposes of the 
 company, up to and until the dissolution thereof : 
 
 Provided that it shall not be obligatory to fill up any 
 vacancy in the office of director occurring after the passing of 
 this Act, but the continuing directors for the time being of 
 each company may continue in office and exercise all powers 
 of directors up to and until the dissolution of the company. 
 
 (3) For the purpose of distributing such port stock as 
 aforesaid and winding up its affairs any such company may, 
 after the appointed day, temporarily retain for its own use 
 such offices, books, accounts, and documents, and the service 
 of such officers and servants, on such terms and conditions 
 as may be agreed upon between the Port Authority and the 
 company or, failing agreement, may be determined by the 
 Board of Trade. 
 
 (4) Any costs, charges, and expenses (including all rents^ 
 rates, taxes, and other outgoings in respect of any offices and 
 all salaries, wages, or pay of any officers or servants temporarily 
 retained by a dock company for its own use under the last 
 preceding subsection) certified by an auditor appointed by the 
 Board of Trade to have been properly incurred by the company 
 for the purposes aforesaid shall be paid to the company by the 
 Port Authority. 
 
 55. — (1) Any person who at the passing of this Act and at 
 the appointed day holds a licence as a licensed lighterman or 
 waterman or qualified apprentice or a certificate under section 
 three hundred and three of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, 
 shall be entitled to receive a licence or certificate from the Port 
 Authority, tenable on the like terms and conditions as the licence 
 or certificate so held. 
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[8 Bdw. 7.] Port of London Act, 19C8. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 (2) Nothing in this Act shall vacate or affect any indenture A.D. 1908. 
 of apprenticeship existing at the passing of this Act, 
 
 56. — (1) With a view of supplying funds to the Port Autho- Temporary 
 rity immediately on and for five years after entering on the *'^'>'*"<'«=«- 
 undertakings of the dock companies the Port Authority may 
 obtain advances of such sums of money as thpy may require for 
 meeting their obligations and carrying on their business : Provided 
 that the total amount so obtained shall not exceed five hundred 
 thousand pounds, or such larger sum (not exceeding one million 
 pounds) as the Board of Trade may sanction, and the sums so 
 advanced shall bo charged on the port fund, but it shall be the 
 duty of the Port Authority to repay any advance obtained under 
 this section, together with all interest thereon, within five years 
 from the date of obtaining the advance. 
 
 (2) The provisions of this Act as to borrowing and the 
 repayment of money shall not apply to advances under this 
 section. 
 
 57. — (1) If on the appointed day any proceeding or any cause Pending 
 of action is pending or existing by or against the Conservators, P^^^^^'^gs 
 a dock company, or the Watermen's Company, the same shall contracts, 
 not abate, be discontinued, or be in any way prejudicially 
 affected by reason of anything in this Act, but the proceeding 
 or cause of action may be continued, prosecuted, and enforced 
 by or against the Port Authority as it might have been by or 
 against the Conservators or the company if this Act had not 
 been passed, but not further or otherwise. 
 
 (2) All contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, and other instru- 
 ments, and all working arrangements subsisting immediately 
 before the appointed day, and affecting the Conservators, a dock 
 company, or the Watermen's Company, shall be of as full force 
 aad effect against or in favour of the Port Authority, and may be 
 enforced as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Conservators 
 or the company, the Port Authority had been a party thereto : 
 
 Provided that — 
 
 (i) With respect to contracts any liability under which 
 is to remain a liability of a dock company, the 
 provisions of this, section shall in all respects be 
 subject to the provisions of the sections of this Act 
 relating to the maintenance of undertakings of dock 
 companies until the appointed day and existing 
 
 D 45 
 
[Ch.68.] 
 
 Tort of London Ads,. 14)08. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7*]' 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Saving for 
 existing 
 byelaws, &c. 
 
 Compen- 
 sation to 
 directors of 
 dock com- 
 panies. 
 
 officers and servants, and shall not prejudice any 
 remedy over by the Port Authority against a dock 
 company in respect of any such liability; and 
 
 (ii) Nothing in this section shall afEect any proceeding, 
 cause of action, contract, deed, bond, agreement, or 
 other instrument relating solely to any powers, 
 duties, property, or liabilities of the Conservators 
 or of the "Watermen's Company not transferred to 
 the Port Authority by or under this Act. 
 
 58. All byelaws, rules, regulations, and dues made or 
 enforceable by the Conservators, a dock company, or the Water-, 
 men's Company, or the Court of the Watermen's Company, shall, 
 so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 Act, and until repealed, altered, or superseded, remain in force in 
 like manner and to the like extent as if this Act had not been 
 passed : 
 
 Provided that any byelaws, rules, regulations, or dues made or 
 imposed in pursuance of any power by this Act transferred from 
 the Conservators or the Watermen's Company or the Court thereof 
 to the Port Authority, shall, subject to any order made by the 
 Board of Trade, extend throughout the area within which the 
 power in pursuance of which they were made or imposed is for 
 the time being exerciseable by the Port Authority. 
 
 • 
 
 59: — (1) The Port Authority shall issue by way of com- 
 pensation for the loss of office sustained by such of the directors 
 of the several dock companies as were in office both at the date 
 of the publication of the notice of the Bill for this Act and on 
 the appointed day, the following amounts of A port stock :— 
 
 {a) to the London and India Docks Company sixty-seven 
 
 thousand six hundred pounds ; 
 (6) to the Surrey Commercial Dock Company forty thousand 
 
 pounds ; 
 (c) to the MUlwall Dock Company twenty thousand pounds ; 
 and the stock so issued shall be distributed amongst the directors 
 entitled to compensation in such proportions as those directors or 
 a majority of them determine. 
 
 (2) If any such director becomes entitled to a salary as 
 
 chairman, vice-chairman, or chairman of a committee of the Port 
 
 Authority a sum equal to the amount of the interest on the 
 
 port stock allotted to him as compensation under this section 
 
 4=6 
 
[8 EjDW. 7.] Part of London Aet, 1908. [0h.^ 68.] 
 
 shall, whilst he holds the office to which the salarj* is attached, A.D.iaos. 
 be deducted from the salary which would otherwise be payable 
 to him. 
 
 60. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act — ' Existing 
 
 officers and 
 
 {fi) every officer and servant of the Conservators, unless he servants, 
 is immediately before the appointed day employed 
 solely or mainly in connexion with the powers and 
 duties of the Conservators not transferred by this 
 Act to the Port Authority ; and 
 
 {b) every officer and servant of th© several dock companies ; 
 and 
 
 (c) every officer and servant of the Watermen's Company 
 immediately before the appointed day employed 
 solely or mainly in connexion with the powers and 
 duties of the Watermen's Company or the court 
 of that company by this Act transferred to the 
 Port Authority, 
 
 (all which officers and servants are in this Act referred to as 
 existing officers and servants) shall, as from, the appointed day, 
 become an officer or servant of the Port Authority, and shall hold 
 his office or situation by the same tenure and upon like terms 
 and conditions, (including all conditions regarding pension or 
 other superannuation allowance) under the Port Authority as he 
 would have held the same under the body from whbm he is trans- 
 ferred if this Act had not been passed, and while performing the 
 same duties shall receive not less salary, wages, or pay than he 
 would have been entitled to if this ^.ct had not been passed. 
 
 (2) Every existing officer and servant shall perform, such 
 duties as he may be required to perform by the Port Authority, 
 
 (3) The Port Authority may abolish the office or situation of 
 any existing officer or servant which they deem unnecessary, and 
 any existing officer or servant required to perform duties such as 
 are not analogous, or which are an unreasonable addition to those 
 which as an officer or servant of the body from whom he is trans- 
 ferred he was required to perform, may relinquish his office or 
 service/ and every existing officer or servant whose office is so 
 abolished or who so relinquishes his office or service as aforesaid 
 or who otherwise suffers any direct pecuniary loss in consequence 
 of this Act, . shall be entitled to be paid by the Port Authority 
 compensation ior such pecuniary loss, regard being had to the 
 conditions on which his appointment was made, the nature of his 
 
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[Oh. 68.] Pwt of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. office or employment, the duration of Ms service, aud any other 
 circumstances affecting the case. 
 
 (4) Subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions 
 51 & 52 Vict, contained in section one hundred and twenty of the Local Govern- 
 °'*^" ment Act, 1888, relating to compensation to existing officers, shall 
 
 apply to any claim for compensation by an existing officer or 
 servant with the substitution of references to the Port Authority 
 and port fund for references to the County Council and county 
 fund. 
 
 (6) If within a period of five years after the appointed day 
 the services of any existing officer or servant are dispensed with 
 by the Port Authority because his services are not required, and 
 not on account of misconduct or incapacity, or the salary to any 
 sach officer or servant is reduced on the ground that his duties 
 have been diminished in consequence of the provisions of this Act, 
 the officer or servant shall be deemed to have suffered direct 
 pecuniary loss in consequence of this Act. 
 
 (6) Any person foi*merly in the employment of the Con- 
 servators, or of any dock company, or the Watermen's Company, 
 who on the appointed day is, though not legally entitled 
 thereto, in receipt of a pension or other superannuation allow- 
 ance from the Conservators, or any dock company, or the 
 Watermen's Company, shall continue to receive from the Port 
 Authority the same pension or allowance unless he is guilty of 
 grave misconduct, and any question whether he has been guilty 
 x)f such misconduct shall, in case of difference be determined by 
 the Board of Trade: 
 
 Provided that this provision shall not apply in the case of a 
 person in receipt of a pension or superannuation allowance from 
 the Conservators or the Watermen's Company unless the employ- 
 naent of the person whilst in the employ of the Conservators or 
 Watermen's Company was of such a nature that, in the opinion 
 .of the Board of Trade, he would have been transferred to Port 
 Authority had he been in that employment at the appointed day. 
 
 (7) In computing the time of service of any existing officer or 
 servant for the purpose of determining the compensation to which 
 •he is entitled under this section, or of any superannuation or 
 annual allowance that may be awarded him by the Port Authority 
 
 29 & 30 Vict, under the provisions of the Superannuation (Metropolis) Act, 1866, 
 '-'•^^- as applied by this Act, or to which he may be entitled under 
 
 the London and India Docks Pension Scheme, or the respective 
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[$ Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 schemes of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company or otherwise, A,D. 1908. 
 the period during which he has been in the service of the Con- 
 servators, a dock company, or the Watermen's Company shall be 
 included : 
 
 Provided that as respects the officers mentioned in the 
 Seventh Schedule to this Act (being officers who were appointed 
 to their offices as specially qualified persons at an age exceeding 
 that at which public service ordinarily begins) the provisions of 
 this subsection shall apply as modified by that schedule. 
 
 (8) Charles James More, the engineer of the Conservators, 
 and Thomas Henry Cullis, the secretary of the Surrey Commer- 
 cial Dock Company, if they respectively continue to hold those 
 offices till the appointed day,, shall on the appointed day be 
 entitled to relinquish their offices and to be paid by the Port 
 Authority a superannuation allowance amounting to two-thirds 
 of the salary payable to them respectively at the date of the 
 introduction of the Bill for this Act. 
 
 (9) The liability of the Conservators ' in respect of any 
 pension or superannuation allowance ' payable to James Hilditch 
 Gough shall be transferred to the Port Authority. 
 
 (10) As respects Joseph Guinness Broodbank, the {secretary 
 to the London and India Docks Company, Thomas Hardy, the 
 manager of that company, and Edward Prancis Turner, ^^the 
 solicitor to that company, such of the provisions of the agree- 
 ments made by that company with those officers respectively, the 
 first two dated the eleventh day of February one thousand nine 
 hundred and eight and the third dated the twenty-fourth .day 
 of Pebruary one thousand nine hundred and three, as determine 
 the rights of those officers in the event of the undertaking of the 
 company being purchased in pursuance of any statutory power 
 (except in the case of the two first-mentioned agreements the 
 provisions of clause six of those agreements) shall be substituted 
 for the provisions of this section both as to the conditions of 
 employment (if the Port Authority elect to employ them) .and 
 compensation and as respects the said provisions of ; those agree- 
 ments the Port Authority shall, except as aforesaid, be subject 
 to the exclusion of the company, to all the duties, liabilities, 
 and obligations of the company under those agreements in like 
 manner as if they were the company. 
 
 (11) Every existing officer or servant not entitled to com- 
 pensation under this section, and not otherwise lejjalJy entitled to 
 
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[Gp, 68.] Fort of London Act, 1908. £8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 AJ). 1908. any pension or superannuation allowance, who becomes inculpable 
 of discharging the duties of his office with efficiency by reason of 
 permanent infirmity of mind or body, or who has attained the 
 age of sixty years, or who having been in the service of the 
 Conservators, or a dock company, or the "Watermen's Company 
 for a period of not less than five years, is dismissed by the Port 
 Authority on any ground other than misconduct shall, upon his 
 resigning or otherwise ceasing to hold office, be entitled to a 
 superannuation allowance upon the terms and conditions and 
 according to the scale specified in the Superannuation (Metropolis) 
 Act, 1866, as applied by this Act : , , 
 
 Provided that this provision shall not apply to any officer 
 or servant who, having regard to the practice of the body from 
 whom he is transferred with regard to pensioning their officers 
 and servants, had no reasonable expectation of receiving a pen- 
 sion or superannuation allowance on retirement had he remained 
 in the service , of that body, and any question as to whether an 
 officer or servant had such reasonable expectation shall be finally 
 deterjaained by the Board- of Trade. 
 
 (12) If the Port Authority think— ^ 
 
 : ; {a) that any appointment- to any office or service of the 
 Conservators, a dock company, or the Watermen's 
 Company, or any alteration in the rate of salary, 
 wages, or pay of any existing officer or servantt 
 made subsequently to the date of introduction ..of 
 the Bill for this Act, was not reasonably necessary 
 in the ordinary course of the business of the Con- 
 servators or the company ; or 
 
 (S) that any grant or alteration of a pension or super- 
 annuation allowance, or of any right thereto, made 
 by the Conservators, a dock company or the Water- 
 men's Company subsequently to that date was not 
 in accordance with the usual practice of the Con- 
 servators or the company with respect to granting 
 or altering pensions or allowances, 
 
 the Port Authority may give notice in writing to the Conservators 
 the dock company or the Watermen's Company to that effect 
 within six weeks after the appointed day, and, if the Port 
 .Authority give such a, notice, it shall be referred to an arbitrator 
 appointed by the Board of Trade to determine whether or not 
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[8 EJ^kW. 7.] PQrt of LQndon J.ct, 190,8. j [Ch. 68.] 
 
 the appointment, alteration or grant was reasonably necessary in A.D. 
 the ordinary course of the business, or was in accordance with ~ 
 the usual practice of the Conservators or the company, and the 
 arbitrator shall determine whether, and to what extent, as between 
 the Port Authority and the Conservators or the company any 
 liability arising in respect thereto is to be transferred to the 
 Port Authority or is to continue as a liability of the Conservators 
 or the company. 
 
 (13) Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights 
 or interests of any person who on or immediately before the 
 appointed day is a member of the staff of the London and India 
 Docks Company, or who may or would become or be entitled to 
 a superannuation allowance of and in the pension fund or other 
 fund formed by and under the' provisions of the indenture and 
 official circular mentioned in Part I. of the Eighth Schedule to 
 this Act; but all the provisions of such deed and official circular 
 in favour of or affecting the members of the staff of the London 
 and India Docks Company, and their wives and families, shall 
 remain in full force and' effect, and the Port Authority shall, as 
 from the appointed day, be entitled to all the benefits and interests, 
 and bfe subject to all the liabilities of the London and India Docks 
 Company under such indenture and ofiB^oial circular. 
 
 (14) Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights 
 or interests of any person who on or immediately before the 
 appointed day is a member of the staff of the Surrey Commercial 
 Dock Company, or entitled to a superannuation allowance under 
 the provisions of any of the superannuation deeds mentioned in 
 Part II. of the Eighth Schedule to this Act, or except as other w^ise 
 expressly provided by this Act with respect to James Stranach 
 GaskeU and Gilbert William Wheeler under any resolution of the 
 company passed previously to the introduction of the Bill for this 
 Act by which, for the purpose of any pension or superannuation 
 allowance, any number of years has been added to the number 
 of years during which any such person as aforesaid has actually 
 served the company; but all the provisions of any of the said 
 superannuation deeds and resolutions in favour of or affecting 
 any such person as aforesaid shall remain in full force and effect, 
 and the Port Authority shall, as from the 9,ppointed day, be 
 entitled to all the benefits and interests and be subject to all the 
 liabilities of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company under the 
 said several superannuation deeds and resolutions. 
 
 D 4 51 
 
[Ch. 68.] 
 
 Fort of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7 j 
 
 Ameudm ent 
 of Pilotage 
 Order Con- 
 firmation 
 Act, 1896. 
 
 .A.D. 1908. (15) If any question arises as to whether an officer or servant 
 
 is transferred to the Port Authority under this section, the question 
 shall be determined by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (16) The temporary retention after the appointed day of the 
 services of an officer or servant by any dock company in accordance 
 with the provisions of this Act shall in no wise prejudice or affect, 
 his rights under this section. 
 
 (17) This section shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply 
 to the officers and servants of the Conservators who are not trans- 
 ferred to the Port Authority in like manner as if the Conservators,' 
 as reconstituted by this Act, had been a new authority and those 
 officers and sen'ants had been transferred to that authority. 
 
 61. As from the appointed day, and unless and until a 
 Provisional Order under section five hundred and seventy-seren 
 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, dealing with the matter is 
 made and confirmed, a shipowners' representative on the Pilotage 
 Committee of the Trinity House shall, instead of being elected 
 in the manner provided by the Order scheduled to the Pilotage 
 59 & 60 Vict. Order Confirmation Actj 1896, be appointed by the Board of 
 c. xcvu. Trade after consultation with the General Shipowners' Society 
 of London and such other persons or bodies having knowledge 
 or experience of shipping in the Port of London as the Board 
 think fit, and the Order scheduled to the Pilotage Order Confir- 
 mation Act, 1896, shall be read accordingly as though referencdfe 
 to such an appointment were substituted for references to elections 
 by shipowners. 
 
 62. — (1) If any difficulty arises with respect to the establish- 
 ment of the Port Authority, or the reconstitution of the Con- 
 servators, or to the appointment of the first members, or to the 
 first meeting of the Port Authority or of the Conservators as 
 reconstituted, the Board of Trade may by order make any 
 appointment or do anything which appears to them to be neces- 
 sary or expedient for the proper establishment of the Port 
 Authority, or the reconstitution of the Conservators, and the 
 proper holding of the first meeting: 
 
 Provided that nothing in this section shall empower the 
 Board of Trade to alter the number of the Conservators or to 
 alter or interfere with the right of any body under this Act to 
 a])point a Conservator or Conservators or the proportion of 
 representation to which any such body is entitled under this Act. 
 R2 
 
 Power of 
 Board of 
 Trade to 
 remove 
 difficultie?. 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] :Bort of London Act, 1908, [Ch. 68.] 
 
 (2) Any such order may modify the provisions of this Act A.D. 1908. 
 and the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, so far as may appear 
 to the Board of Trade necessary or expedient for carrying the 
 order into effect. 
 
 63. All costs, charges, and expenses preliminary to and of Costs of Act. 
 and incidental to the preparing, applying for, obtaining, and 
 passing of this Act incurred by the Board of Trade shall be repaid 
 to that Board by the Port Authority when established under this 
 Act. 
 
 53 
 
[Gh. 68.1 ^or^ of London Act, 1908. [8 Bdw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. SCHEDULES. 
 
 Section 1. PIRST SCHEDULE. 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF PORT AUTHORITY. 
 
 Pakt I. 
 
 Provisions as to Proceedings at Meetings of Port Authority. 
 
 (1) At every meeting of the Port Authority, the chairman, if present, 
 shall preside. If the chairman is absent, the vice-chairman, if present, 
 shall preside. If both the chairman and vice-chairman are absent, such 
 other member as the members then present choose shall preside. 
 
 (2) Every question at a meeting of the Port Authority shall be decided 
 by a majority of votes of the members of the Port Authority present and 
 voting on that question, and in the case of equality of votes the person 
 presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote. 
 
 (3) The quorum of the Port Aiithority shall be one-third of the whole 
 number of the Port Authoiity. 
 
 (4) The Port Authority may appoint such and so many committlfes, 
 either of a general or special nature, and consisting of such number of 
 persons, and either wholly or partly of members of the Port Authority, as 
 they think fit, for any purposes which, in the opinion of the Port Authority 
 would be better regulated and managed by means of committees, and may 
 delegate, with or without any restrictions or conditions, as they may think 
 fit, any of their powers or duties, except any power of raising money, 
 and except any powers of fixing or varying any dues, and except any 
 power of making any application to Parliament or to the Board of Trade 
 in respect of any such dues, to any committee of the Port Authority so 
 appointed, and the provisions of section eighty-two of the Local Government 
 Act, 1888, with respect to proceedings of committees of county councils, 
 shall apply to committees of the Port Authority as if they were committees 
 of a county council: Provided that a majority of the members of every 
 committee shall be members of the Pdrt Authority. 
 
 (5) A minute of the proceedings of the Port Authority or of a committee 
 thereof, signed at the same or the next ensuing meeting by a member of 
 the Port Authority or comoiittee describing himself as, or appearing to be 
 chairman of the meeting at which the minute is signed, shall be received 
 in evidence without further proof. 
 
 54 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. [Gfl. 68.] 
 
 (6) Until the contrary is proved, every meeting in respect of the pro- ^,D. 1908. 
 
 ceedings whereof a minute has been so made shall be.deepjed.to have bpen 
 
 duly convened and, Jield, and all the men;ibers of the. meeting shall be deemed 
 
 to have been duly qualified ; and where the proceedings are proceedings of a 
 committee, the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and 
 to have had power to deal with the matter referred to in the .minutes. 
 
 (7) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Port Authority may 
 regulate their own procedure. 
 
 (8) No act or proceeding of the Port Authority shall be questioned on 
 account of any vacancy in their body, or on account of the election or 
 appointment of any member having been defective. 
 
 Paut II. 
 Provisions as to QuAiiiFiCATioNS of Chairmak, 
 
 VjCE-Ch AIRMAN, AND OTHER MEMBERS. 
 
 (1) A person shall be disqualified for being appointed, or being chairman 
 or vice-chairman, or being elected or appointed or being a member of the 
 Port Authority if he — 
 
 (a) is not a British subject resident in the United Kingdom; or. . 
 (6) holds any paid office under the Port Authority save as permitted 
 
 by this Act ; or 
 (c) is concerned in any bargain or contract entered into with the 
 
 Port Authority, or participates in the profit of any such bargain 
 
 or contract, or of any work done under the authority of the 
 
 Port Authority : 
 
 Provided, that a person shall not be disqualified for being appoinfegd 
 or being chairman or vice-chairman, or being elected or appointed or being 
 a member; by reason of being intej;ested — ( : 
 
 (i)' in 'liie sale oi: lease of any lands, or in any loan of money to the 
 
 Port Authority, or in any contract with the Port Authority 'fbr 
 
 ' I the supply from landj of which he is owner or occupier, of 
 
 materials for work being done by or' under the authority of the 
 
 - Port Authority ; or 
 
 (ii) in any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the 
 affairs of the Port Authority is inserted ; or 
 
 (iii) in any bargain or contract with the Port Authority or made in 
 the ordinary course of the dock or warehousing business , of 
 the Port Authority. 
 
 (2) A person shall be disqualified for being chairman, vice-chairman or 
 other member of the Port Authority if he is convicted, either on indictment 
 or summarily, of any crime, and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour 
 without the option of a fine, or to any greater punishment, or is adjudged 
 bankrupt, or makes a composition or arrangement with his creditors. 
 •■'■'' 55 
 
[Ch. 68.] Pot^t of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. (3) If any member of the Port Authority appointed by the London 
 
 County Council or the Corporation, who at the date of his appointment was 
 a member of the appointing authority, ceases for three months to be a 
 member of that authority, lie shall at the end of that period vacate his 
 office as member of the Port Authority, and if any member of the Port 
 Authority appointed by the London County Council or the Corporation who 
 at the date of his appoiatment was not a member of the appointing 
 authority becomes a member of that authority he shall forthwith vacate 
 his office as member of the Port Authority. 
 
 (4) If the chairman, vice-chairman or any other member is absent from 
 meetings of the Port Authority for more than six months consecutively, 
 except for some reason approved by the Port Authority, he shall, on the 
 expiration of those months, vacate his office. 
 
 (5) Where the chairman, vice-chairman or other member becomes dis- 
 qualified for holding office, or vacates his office from absence or otherwise, 
 the Port Authority shall forthwith declare the office to be vacant, and 
 shall notify the fact in such manner as they think fit, and thereupon the 
 office shall become vacant. 
 
 Part III. 
 Provisions as to Tenure of Ottice, Casual Vacancies, &c. 
 
 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the term of office of a 
 member of the Port Authority shall be three years, and the term of office 
 of the chairman and vice-chairman shall be three years. 
 
 (2) On the first day of April nineteen hundred and thirteen (and in 
 the case of members appointed by the London County Council nineteen 
 hundred and ten), and on the first day of April in every third year thSre- 
 after, all the elected and appointed members of the Port Authority shall 
 go out of office, and their places shall be filled by new elections and new 
 appointments to be held and made at such times as may be fixed by an 
 Order made by the Board of Trade, but a person going out of -office may, if 
 otherwise qualified, be re-elected or re-appointed. 
 
 (3) The first business at the first meeting of the Port Authority, after 
 the first day of April nineteen hundred and thirteen, and at the first meeting 
 after the first day of April in every third year thereafter, shall be the 
 new appointment of a chairman and vice-chairman, but a person going out 
 of office may, if otherwise qualified, be re-appointed, and a chairman or 
 vice-chairman shall continue in office until his successor is appointed. 
 
 (4) On a casual vacancy occurring in the Port Authoritjr by reason of 
 the death, resignation, disqualification, or absence of a member, or otherwise, 
 the vacancy shall be filled, — 
 
 (a) in the case of an elected member, by .a member co-opted by the 
 remaining elected members of the Port Authority at a meeting 
 of those members specially summoned for the purpose; 
 
 (6) in the case of an appointed member, by a member appointed 
 
 by the authority by whom the vacating member was appointed ; 
 56 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] :Port of London Act, 1908, [Ch. 68,] 
 
 and the person so co-opted or appointed shall hold office until the time when A.D. 1908. 
 
 the person in whose place he is co-opted or appointed would have regularly 
 
 gone out of office, and shall then go out of his office. 
 
 (5) On a vacancy occurring or being about to occur in the office of an 
 appointed member the elevk or secretary of the Port Authority shall imme- 
 diately give notice to the authority by which the vacancy is to be filled. 
 
 (6) Oq a person being elected or appointed a member, the returning 
 officer or the appointing authority, as the case may be, shall forthwith give 
 notice of the election or appointment to the Port Authority. 
 
 (7) The appointment of a member to be chairman or vice-chairman 
 shall not create a casual vacancy. 
 
 (8) On a casual vacancy occurring in the office of chairman or vice- 
 chairman of the Port Authority by reason of the death, resignation, 
 disqualification, or absence of the chairman or vice-chairman, or otherwise, 
 the person appointed in his place shall hold oifice until the time when the 
 person in whose place he is appointed would regularly have gone out of 
 office, and shall then go out of office. 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 Provisions as to Election op EiiECted Members. 
 
 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, elections of elected members 
 shall be held at such times and in such manner and in accordance with such 
 regulations as the Board of Trade niaj? by order direct ; and those regulations 
 may contain all things necessary, preliminary, or incidental to the election. 
 
 Provided that, in prescribing the manner in which elections are to 
 be conducted and votes are to be recorded,, the Board of Trade shall have 
 regard to the desirability of elections being so conducted and votes being so 
 recorded whether by allowing the voter to record a vote for a number of 
 candidates in order of preference or otherwise as to secure that so far as 
 possible the several interests concerned shall be adequately represented on 
 the Port Authority. 
 
 (2) The regulations may provide that (subject to duly qualified 
 candidates presenting themselves) the elected members shall include as 
 nearly as may be an equal number of persons whose principal business 
 13 or has been mainly connected with vessels and persons whose principal 
 business is or has been mainly connected with goods. 
 
 (3) A register shall be formed and revised at such times, in such 
 manner, and in accordance with such regulations as the Board of Trade may 
 by order direct, comprising payers of dues, wharfingers, and owners of 
 river craft. 
 
 (4) The register for the time being in force shall be. conclusive evidence 
 
 tliat the persons named therein and no others are entitled to vote at an 
 
 election, and that those persons respectively are entitled to the number of 
 
 votes stated therein. 
 
 57 
 
[Oh. 68.] 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. J908. ' (5) Subject ' to the provisions of this Schedule, every person -shall be 
 entitled to have 'his name entered on the register as a payer of dues who 
 is resident in the United Kingdom, and has on his own account during 
 the preceding, I financial year paid to the Port Authority dues amounting 
 in the aggregate to not less than ten pounds. . 
 
 (6) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, every person shall be 
 entitled to have his name entered on the register as a wharfinger, who 
 is resident in the United Kingdom, and was, on the prescribed date,, the 
 occupier of a wharf, quay, warehouse, or granary adjoining the Port of 
 London mainly used for warehousing the goods imported into the port of 
 London of persons other than the occupier of such premises, the rateable 
 value of which is not less than fifty pounds. 
 
 (7) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, every person shall be 
 entitled to have his name entered on the register as an owner of river 
 craft who is resident in the United Kingdom and was on the prescribed 
 date the owner of such a craft. 
 
 (8) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, each person whose 
 name is entered on the register shall, at any election of members to be 
 elected by payers of dues, wharfingers, and owners of river craft, be entitled to 
 give one or more votes according to the following scales : — 
 
 (a) In the case of a person entered on the register as a payer of 
 dues — 
 
 £ £ 
 
 Where the dues amount to 10 but do not amount to 
 
 25 
 
 
 50 
 
 JJ ?j 
 
 100 
 
 it a 
 
 200 
 
 >) 3> 
 
 400 
 
 » »» 
 
 800 
 
 >i t> 
 
 1,500 
 
 JJ » 
 
 3,000 
 
 25 Votes, 1 
 
 50 
 
 , 2 
 
 100 
 
 , 3 
 
 200 
 
 , 4 
 
 400 
 
 , 5 
 
 800 
 
 , 6 
 
 1,500 
 
 , 7 
 
 3,000 
 
 , 8 
 
 5,000 
 
 , 9 
 
 and for every additional 2,000/. over 5,000/. one vote, so, however, that the 
 total number of votes to which any one payer of dues is entitled shall not 
 exceed fifty. 
 
 (6) In the case of a person entered on the register as a wharfinger — 
 Where the rateable value of the premises amounts to — 
 
 50/. 
 
 but does not amount to 125/. 
 
 - Votes, 1 
 
 125/. 
 
 
 jj 
 
 250/. 
 
 „ 2 
 
 250/. 
 
 
 » 
 
 500/. 
 
 „' 3 
 
 500/. 
 
 5J 
 
 » 
 
 1,000/. 
 
 - „ 4 
 
 1,000/. 
 
 t) 
 
 >i 
 
 1,500/. 
 
 » 5 
 
 1,500/. 
 
 a 
 
 i> 
 
 2,000/. 
 
 „ 6 
 
 2,000/. 
 
 }} 
 
 ■ it 
 
 3,000/. 
 
 - „ 7 
 
 3,000/. 
 
 » 
 
 Jj 
 
 4,000/. 
 
 - „ 8 
 
 4,000/. 
 
 >; 
 
 )) 
 
 5,000/. 
 
 - „ 9 
 
 58 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 Fort of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [Ch. 68.] 
 
 Where the rateable value amoUuts to 5,000Z. or oyer, 10 votes. , A«D. 1909^,. 
 
 (c) In the case of a person entered on the register as an owner of 
 river craft. 
 
 Where the number of craft owned amounts to- 
 
 1 but does not amount to 10 
 10 „ ., 30 - 
 
 30 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 150 
 
 150 
 
 200 
 
 200 
 
 300 
 
 300 
 
 400 
 
 400 
 
 500 
 
 Where the number of craft owned amounts to 500 or over 
 
 Votes, 1 
 
 ;, 2 
 
 „ 3 
 
 „ 4 
 
 „ 5 
 
 „ 6 
 
 „ r 
 
 „ 8 
 
 .. 9 
 10 
 
 (9) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule the persons entitled to 
 vote at an election of a member to be elected by wharfingers shall be the 
 persons entered upon the register as wharfingers and no others, and at such 
 an election each person shall be entitled to give one or more votes according 
 to the scale hereinbefore contained. 
 
 (10) Where a wharfinger is the occupier of two or more premises sepa-' 
 rately assessed, he shall be entitled to be entered on the register and to vote: 
 in respect of each of such premises in like manner as if as respects each 
 of such premises he were a separate person, 
 
 (11) Where any dues have been paid on account of a company or a 
 firm, . or the owners of : any ship or river craft who are not partners, or 
 where a company or a firm or an association or body of persons are the 
 occupiers of such a wharf, quay, warehouse, or granary as aforesaid,, or 
 where any river craft is owned by a company or a firm or by persons 
 who are not partners, the dues shall be deemed to have been paid on his 
 own account by such one of the directors or officers of the company or 
 partners in the firm or members of the association or body or owners of 
 the ship or river craft or other person as the directors or firm or association 
 or body or owners may appoint in the prescribed manner, and the wharf, 
 quay, warehouse, or granary shall be deemed to be occupied, and the craft 
 owned, by a director or partner or owner or member similarly , appointed. 
 
 (12) Where a person possesses more than one qualification he shall be 
 entitled to be entered on the register and to vote in respect of each such, 
 qualification, in like manner as if as respects each such qualification he were 
 a separate person. 
 
 (13) If at any time it appears to the Board of Trade that, as a result 
 of the qualifications and scales of votes fixed by this Schedule the voting 
 power of any voters or class of voters is disproportionate or inadequate 
 having regard to their interest in the Port of London, the Board may 
 by provisional order make such variations in those qualifications or 
 scales of votes as may seem to them to be just, and may provide for 
 
 69 
 
[Oh. 68,] Port of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. different qualifications and different scales of votes for different classes of 
 payers of dues. 
 
 (14) All proper expenses of or incidental to the formation or revision 
 of the register, or of or incidental to an election of an elected member 
 shall, subject to any regulations in any order of the Board of Trade made 
 under this Part of this Schedule, be defrayed by the Port Authority. 
 
 (15) The Port Authority shall not themselves be entitled to be entered 
 or to appoint any person to be entered, on the register in respect of any 
 qualification possessed by the Port Authority. 
 
 (16) Ar.y forms provided or sanctioned by the Port Authority for use in 
 connection with the payment of any dues shall contain a column for the 
 insertion ttiereir of the name and address of the person on whose account 
 the dues are paid : 
 
 Where dues paid by any person are paid by him on behalf of any otiier 
 person and are directly recoverable by him from that othec person that other 
 person shall if he so requires be entered as the person by whom and on 
 whose account tlie dues are paid : 
 
 Provided that where the owner or master of a ship or a public wharfinger 
 has in pursuajice of this Act paid rates on goods on behalf of some other 
 person the rates shall for the purposes of this Schedule be deemed to have 
 been paid by and on account of such other person. 
 
 Subject as aforesaid the person by whom the dues are paid shall for 
 the purposes of this Schedule be deemed to be the person on whose account 
 they are paid. 
 
 (17) For the purposes of this Schedule " dues " shall not include fees in 
 respect of the registration or licensing of craft and boats but shall include 
 payments in commutation of due.-?. 
 
 (18) For the purposes of the first election under this Act " dues " shall 
 include dues of such classes and in respect of such services only as may 
 be set forth in a Provisional Order to be made by the Board of Trade. 
 
 Part V. 
 
 Provision as to First Constitution and Eirst Meeting. 
 
 (1) The Board of Trade shall take such steps as may be necessary for 
 constituting the Port Authority as soon as may be after the passing of this 
 Act, and for summoning the first meeting of the Port Authority and regu- 
 lating the proceedings thereat, and all authorities and persons shall comply 
 with any instructions issued by the Board of Trade for that purpose, and 
 any expenses incuired by the Board of Trade for the purpose aforesaid 
 shall be repaid to that Board by the Port Authority when established. 
 
 (2) The notice of an appointment of an appointed member required 
 by this Schedule to be given to the Port Authority shall in the case of 
 a first appointment be given to the Board of Trade. 
 
 60 
 
[8 Ed-w. 7.] 
 
 :Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [Oh. 68.] 
 
 SECOND SCHEDULE, 
 
 (1) The amount of stock to be issued to the several dock companies 
 under this Act, as consideration for {heir undertakings, shall be distributed 
 amongst the holders of the various classes of stock of the companies at the 
 rates of substitution specified in the following scales ; — 
 
 (a) In the case of the London and India Docks, Company — 
 For lOOi. 3 per cent. A Debenture stock ' 
 „ lOOi. 3 „ B 
 „ lOOi. 3 „ C 
 „ 1001. 4 „ A preference „ ) 
 „ lOOi. 4 „ B 
 „ lOOl. preferred ordinary stock 
 „ 1001. deferred „ „ 
 
 (6) In the case of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company — 
 For 1001. 4^ percent, debenture stock -" 
 
 there shall be 
 substituted 
 
 lOOZ. 4 
 
 100?.. 5 
 1001. 5 
 lOOZ. 5 
 1001. 5 
 lOOZ. 5 
 
 (minim am) A pre- 
 ference stock. 
 B preference stock 
 „ „ 
 
 D 
 
 E „ „ 
 
 F ,, „ 
 
 there shall be 
 substituted 
 
 „ 100 ordinary stock - - -J 
 
 (c) In the case of the Millwall Dock Company — 
 For lOOl. 5 per cent, debenture stock 
 
 aOOi, A Port stock. 
 
 1001. A „ 
 
 ?J 
 
 1001. A „ 
 
 }) 
 
 1001. B „ 
 
 9} 
 
 \00l. B „ 
 
 » 
 
 1001. B „ 
 
 ») 
 
 :75l.B „ 
 
 it 
 
 ^150l A Port stock. 
 
 1121. 10s. B 
 
 Port 
 
 stock. 
 
 
 1251. B Port stock. 
 
 125?. B „ 
 
 i? 
 
 1251. B „ 
 
 JJ 
 
 1251. B „ 
 
 ^, 
 
 1251. B „ 
 
 )) 
 
 'v 951. B „ 
 
 9> 
 
 1001. 4 
 
 lOOl. 5 per cent, preference stock 
 1001. 4i 
 
 1001. new 5 per cent. „ „ 
 
 1001. ordinary stock - 
 
 there shall be 
 substituted 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Sections 3, 54. 
 
 133i. 6s. 8d A Port 
 stock and 251. B 
 Port stock. 
 100?. A Port stock 
 and 25?. B Port 
 stock. 
 
 94?. B Port stock. 
 45?. B „ „ 
 35?. B „ „ 
 24?. 10s. B Port 
 stock. 
 
 (2) Immediately after the appointed day every holder of debenture 
 or other stock in any dock company shall deliver up to the company the 
 certificates of the stock held by him to be cancelled, and on such delivery 
 the directors of the company shall issue or cause to be issued to each such 
 stockholder in substitution for the stock of the company so held by him 
 the amount of Port stock to which he is entitled under the foregoing 
 scales : 
 
 Provided that the directors shall dispense with such delivery of a 
 certificate if the loss or destruction thereof is proved to the reasonable 
 satisfaction of the directors. , ,, . « ii 
 
 (3) The transfer books of the several dock companies shall be tinaUy 
 closed on such date previous to the issue of Port stock in substitution for 
 
 E 61 
 
[Oh. 68.] P(n't of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 A.D. 1908. the existing stocks of any such company as the directors of the company 
 may determine, and notice of such closing shall be given by the com- 
 pany to the secretary of the London Stock Exchange, and also by 
 advertisement in two London daily newspapers thirty days before the 
 date on which such transfer books are to be closed, and after the date 
 of closing such transfer books the company may refuse to register any 
 transfer of any of the company's stocks. 
 
 (4) The Port Authority shall, if so required by a dock company, 
 before the Port stock to be issued as consideration for the undertaking of the 
 company is issued to the company, instead of issuing to the company 
 the whole of the Port stock to be so issued to it, issue the Port stock to 
 such amounts and to such persons as the company may require, and the 
 issue of Port stock in accordance with such requirements shall, to that 
 extent, discharge the Port Authority of their liability to issue Port stock 
 to the company. 
 
 (5) Any money paid to a dock company by the Port Authority under 
 the provisions of this Act shall be applied by the directors towards the 
 payment and discharge of any liability which, under this Act, is to 
 continue as a liability of the company, or is not otherwise provided for, 
 and, subject thereto, shall be distributed amongst the various stock- 
 holders of the company in like manner as if it were profits available 
 for immediate distribution as dividend, notwithstanding anything in any 
 special Act relating to the company prescribing the date at which and 
 the period in respect of which dividends on any particular classes of 
 stock of the company may be distributed : 
 
 Provided that if authorised so to do by a special resolution of the 
 company, the directors may pay thereout any sum in consideration ,of 
 loss of office, or in recognition of any services rendered to the company. 
 
 (6) Where a dock company is unable after diligent inquiry to find 
 the person to whom any Port stock is issuable or money payable under 
 this schedule, or where any stock is issuable or money is payable to a 
 person who, or whose committee cannot give an effectual receipt for the 
 same, che company may transfer the stock or pay the money, as nearly 
 as may be, in manner provided for payment of money into court by any 
 Act for the time being in force for the relief of trustees, and such Act 
 shall apply with all necessary modifications to such stock and money. 
 
 (7) When all Port stock issuable to a dock company has been distributed 
 or paid into court as aforesaid and all such money has been applied and 
 distributed as aforesaid, the company may apply to the Board of Trade, 
 which, if satisfied that the said conditions have been complied with, shall 
 give a certificate to that eflFeot, and upon publication of such certificate 
 in the London Gazette the company shall be dissolved. 
 
 (8) The rights conferred by this Act on the holders of the various 
 classes of stocks of a dock company shall be in substitution for the 
 rights conferred on them in the event of the winding-up of the company 
 under the enactments relating to the company. 
 
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[8 Edw. 7.] Port of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.J 
 
 THIRD SCHEDULE. a.d. 1908. 
 
 Section 8. 
 
 Provisions as to Appointment op Conservators. 
 
 (1) The Conservators shall be appointed as follows : — 
 
 By the Board of Trade - - - - 4 
 
 By the Port Authority - - - 1 
 
 By the Metropolitan Water Board - - 2 
 
 By the London County Council - - 3 
 
 By the Corporation .... 2 
 
 By the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire County Councils - 1 
 
 By the Oxfordshire County Council - - - 1 
 
 •* By the Berkshire County Council - - I 
 
 By the Buckinghamshire County Council - 1 
 
 By the Surrey County Council - - - 1 
 
 By the Middlesex County Council - - - ] 
 
 By the Hertfordshire County Council - - 1 
 
 By the Council of the City of Oxford - - - 1 
 
 By the Council of the Borough of Reading . - - 1 
 
 By the Council of the Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames 1 
 By the Councils of the Borough of Windsor and the 
 
 Urban District of Eton - - - - 1 
 
 By the Council of the Borough of Henley -upon-Thames 1 
 By the Councils of the Borough of Maidenhead and the 
 
 Urban District of Marlow - - - - 1 
 By the Councils of the Boroughs of Abingdon and 
 
 Wallingford - - - - - - 1 
 
 By the Councils of the Urban Districts of Egham, Staines, 
 
 Chertsey, Weybridge, Walton, and Sunbury - - 1 
 B^ the Councils of the Urban Districts of East and West 
 
 Molesey, Esher and the Dittons, Surbiton, Hampton, 
 
 Hampton Wick, and Teddington - - - 1 
 
 (2) The mode of appointment and qualification of a Conservator 
 appointed by two or more councils, other than the Gloucestershire and 
 Wiltshire County Councils, shall be such as may be prescribed by regula- 
 tions made by the Board of Trade. 
 
 (3) Two of the members appointed by the Board of Trade shall 
 be appointed by the Board after consultation with such persons and 
 associations concerned in the use of the river as a place of recreation 
 as the Board may think fit and of the remaining two one shall be appointed 
 by the Board after consultation with such persons and associations concerned 
 in the use of the river for the purpose of barge traffic as the Board may 
 think fit. 
 
 E 2 63 
 
[Oh. 68.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.j 
 
 A.D. 1908. FOURTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Section 33, 
 
 Provisions as to Provisional Orders. 
 
 (1) The Board of Trade shall not make any Provisional Order under 
 this Act unless public notice of the purport of the proposed Order has been 
 previously given by advertisement in two successive weeks in some London 
 newspaper. 
 
 (2) Before making any such Provisional Order, the Board of Trade shall 
 consider any objections which may be made thereto by any persons affected 
 thereby, and in cases where the subject matter is one to which, an inquiry 
 is applicable, shall cause to be made an inquiry, of which public notice shall 
 be given in manner aforesaid, and at which all persons interested shall be 
 permitted to attend and make objections. 
 
 (3) A Provisional Order may contain any incidental, consequential, or 
 supplemental provisions which may appear to be necessary or proper for the 
 purposes of the Order. 
 
 (4) The Board of Trade may submit to Parliament for confirmation any 
 Provisional Order made by them in pursuance of this Act, but any such Order 
 shall be of no force whatever unless and until it is confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (5) If while the Bill confirming any such Order is pending in either 
 House of Parliament, a petition is presented against any Order comprised 
 therein, the Bill, so far as it relates to such Order, may be referred ft) a 
 Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as 
 in the case of private Bills. 
 
 (6) Any Act confirming any Provisional Order made in pursuance of 
 this Act, may be repealed, altered, or amended by any Provisional Order 
 made by the Board of Trade and confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 (7) The Board of Trade may revoke, either wholly or partially, any 
 Provisional Order made by them before the Order is confirmed by Parlia- 
 ment but such revocation shall not be made whilst the Bill "'confirming the 
 Order is pending in either House of Parliament. 
 
 (8) The making of a Provisional Order shall be prim^ facie evidence 
 that all the requirements of this Act in. respect of proceedings required to be 
 taken previously to the making of such Provisional Order have been complied 
 with. 
 
 64 
 
[8 Edw. v.] 
 
 Tort of London Act, 1908, 
 FIFTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 [Ch. 68.] 
 
 Dbsceiption op Limits of the Port op London. 
 
 The limits of the Port of London shall commence at an imaginary 
 straight line (in this Act referred to as the landward limit of the port of 
 London) drawn from high- water mark on the bank of the River Thames at 
 the boundary line between the parishes of Teddington and Twickenham in 
 the county of Middlesex to high-water mark on the Surrey bank of the river 
 immediately opposite the first-mentioned point, and extend down both sides 
 of the River Thames to an imaginary straight line (in this Act referred to as 
 the seaward limit of the port of London) drawn from the pilot mark at the 
 entrance of Havengore Creek, in the county of Essex, to the Land's End at 
 Warden Point, in the Isle of Sheppey, in the county of Kent, and shall 
 include all islands, rivers, streams, creeks, waters, watercourses, channels, 
 hajbours, docks, and places within the before-mentioned limits contained, and 
 all places which under any Act of Parliament are to be deemed to be witliin 
 the port of London, but shall not include any part of the River Medway 
 above the seaward limit of the jurisdiction of the conservators of the River 
 Medway, or any part of the River Swale, or any part of the River Lee or 
 Bow Creek within the jurisdiction of tlie Lee Conservancy Board, or any 
 part of the Grand Junction Canal. 
 
 AD. 1908. 
 
 Section 49. 
 
 SIXTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Section SO. 
 
 B/EFEAIiS. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 22 & 23 Vict, 
 c. cxxxiii. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 Extent of Bepeal. 
 
 The Watermen's and 
 Lightermen's 
 Amendment Act, 
 1859. 
 
 Sections four to seven ; 
 
 Section twenty-four ; 
 
 Section twenty-five from "subject to this 
 
 proviso " to the end of the section ; 
 In section twenty-seven the words " to be 
 
 named by the Conservators of the Kiver 
 
 Thames"; 
 Sections twenty-nine to forty-oae ; 
 In section fifty-two the words " subject to 
 
 an appeal to the Conservators of the River 
 
 Thames " ; 
 In section fifty-four the words " a freeman '' 
 
 where they first occur, and the words " or 
 
 an apprentice qualified according to this 
 
 Act to a freeman or to the widow of a 
 
 freeman of the said Company " ; 
 Sections sixty-one to sixty-three ; 
 In section sixty-four the words from " and 
 
 subject to an appeal" to "of the said 
 
 court " ; 
 Section sixty-eight ; 
 
 66 
 
[Oh. 68.] 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.J 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 22 & 23 Vict. 
 c. cxxxiii. — 
 cont. 
 
 56 & 57 Vict, 
 c. Ixxxi. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict, 
 c. clxxxvii. 
 
 The Thames Water- 
 men's and Lighter- 
 men's Act, 1893. 
 
 The Thames Con- 
 servancy Act, 1894, 
 
 Extent of Bepeal. 
 
 66 
 
 In section seventy-one the words " with the 
 sanction of the Conservators of the River 
 Thames " ; the words '• and with the like 
 sanction " ; and from " Provided always^" 
 to the end of the section. 
 
 In section eighty the words from " or with 
 any of the byelaws " to " Conservancy of 
 the Eiver Thames," and from " Provided 
 always " to the end of the section ; 
 
 Sections eighty-one to eighty-three ; 
 
 In section eighty-four the words " to work, 
 "row, or navigate any barge, lighter, 
 " boat, or other vessel, or " ; 
 
 Section eighty-six; 
 
 Section eighty-seven ; 
 
 In section eighty-eight the words " freeman, 
 apprentice, or " ; 
 
 Section eighty-nine ; 
 
 In section ninety the words "at their 
 Hall," and the words " and shall be paid 
 " and distributed to the poor, aged, and 
 " decayed freemen of the said company 
 " and their widows," and the words 
 " Master, wardens, or assistants " when- 
 ever they occur ; 
 
 Sections ninety-one to ninety-three ; 
 
 Sections ninety-eight, one hundred, one 
 hundred and one, and one hundred and 
 three. 
 
 In section three the definitions of " craft " 
 and " boat " ; , 
 
 In section sixteen the words " in a summary 
 manner " and " in the place where is the 
 principal waterside place of business of 
 such owner." ., - -- - 
 
 Section twenty-two ; 
 
 Section twenty-nine from "And all the 
 provisions " to the end of the section ; 
 
 In section thirty the words " unless other- 
 wise by this Act directed " ; 
 
 Sections thirty-three, thirty-six, and thirty- 
 
 In section three the definition of the Port 
 of .London; 
 
 Sections six to nine and aleven to twenty- 
 seven. 
 
 In subsection (I) of section twenty-eight, 
 paragraphs (a^ (b), (f), and (g), and in 
 paragraph (e) the word "county," and 
 in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the 
 same section the words "a member of 
 the Trinity House or a member of the 
 Common Council or," the word " county," 
 where it Secondly occurs, and the words 
 " or a member of the board of directors 
 or other governing body of a company or 
 other body corporate." 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] 
 
 :Bort of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [Ch. 68.] 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 57 & 58 Vict, 
 e. clxxxvii. — 
 corit. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 Extent of Kepeal. 
 
 A.D. 1908. 
 
 In section twenty-nine, subsection (2), from 
 "in the case of a vacancy" to "in all 
 other cases," subsection (3), subsection (5) 
 from "or elected" to the end of the 
 subsection, and subsection (6). 
 
 In section thirty, the words " the Ad- 
 miralty," "the Trinity House," "the 
 Common Council," wherever they occur, 
 " county," where it secondly and fourthly 
 occurs, " or the metropolitan water com- 
 panies or elected by the shipowners," and 
 " or elected," and from " And provided 
 that a conservator " to the end of the 
 section. 
 
 In section thirty-one, the words " or re- 
 elected." 
 
 In section thirty-two, the words "by the 
 Admiralty or," "or by the Trinity 
 House, or by the Common Council " 
 " county," where it secondly and fovu-thly 
 occurs, "by the Secretary to the Admi- 
 ralty or," and "or by the Secretary of 
 the Trinity House, or by the town clerk 
 of the City of London." 
 
 In section eighty-three the proviso to 
 subsectiou (1). 
 
 Section one hundred and thirty-four ; 
 
 In section one hundred and fifty-five, the 
 words " All vessels for passengers only." 
 
 In section one hundred and ninety-one, the 
 words " For regulating the mode of 
 " conducting elections of conservators 
 " under this Act." 
 
 Sections two hundred and forty, two 
 hundred and forty-two, and two hundred 
 and forty-three, subsection (1) of section 
 two hundred and fifty-three, subsection 
 (1) of section two hundred and fifty- 
 nine, subsection (1) of section two 
 hundred and eighty-six, and subsection 
 (1) of section two hundred and eighty- 
 seven; and in subsection (2) of the last- 
 mentioned section paragraph (a) and i" 
 paragraph (b) the words " one fourth of". 
 
 In section three hundred and two the words 
 '' and shall be entered into, executed at 
 Waterman's Hall." 
 
 Section three hundred and three, from " and 
 in case," to the end of the section. 
 
 In section three hundred and four, the words 
 " and subject to the like appeal." 
 
 Section three hundred and six. 
 
 In section three hundred and seven the 
 words " being a freeman of the com- 
 pany or ", " as the case may be ", and 
 " admitted a freeman of the company 
 
 or' 
 
 67 
 
[Oh. 68.] 
 
 Port of London Act, 1908. 
 
 [8 Edw. 7.J 
 
 A.D. 1908, 
 
 Session and 
 Chapter. 
 
 57 & S8 Vict, 
 c. clxxxvii. — 
 cont. 
 
 2 Edw. 7. c. 41. 
 
 5 Edw. 7. 
 c. cxcviii. 
 
 Short Title. 
 
 Bxtent of Bepeal. 
 
 The Metropolis Water 
 Act, 1902. 
 
 The Thames Conser- 
 vancy Act, 1905. 
 
 Section three hundred and nine. 
 Section three hundred and ten. 
 Section three hundred and twelve. 
 The Second Schedule ; 
 The Third Schedule. 
 
 In the Third Schedule the paragraph 
 numbered 5. 
 
 Section four. 
 
 In section seven the words " For a period 
 
 " of three years from the first day of 
 
 « January 1906." 
 
 Section 60. 
 
 SEVENTH SCHEDULE. 
 
 Ofpicers entitled to Special Terms. 
 
 In respect of the following officers there shall be added to the number 
 of years during which they have respectively actually served such number 
 of years not exceeding twenty as the Port Authority, or on appeal, the 
 Treasury, may think just ; but the number of years so added in the case of 
 any such officer shall not be less than will be sufficient to secure to the 
 officer compensation or a superannuation allowance equal to one-half of the 
 total annual emoluments which he is entitled to receive from the Port 
 Authority at the date when his office is abolished or relinquished by him or 
 his services are dispensed with under the provisions of this Act, or when he 
 becomes entitled to a superannuation allowance on retirement or otherwise, 
 as the case may be: — 
 
 Kobert Philipson, secretary of the Conservators : 
 
 William Berrell, assistant engineer of the Conservators: 
 
 James Stranach Gaskell, chief engineer of the Surrey Commercial Dock 
 Company : 
 
 Gilbert William Wheeler, assistant secretary of the Surrey Commercial 
 Dock Company : 
 
 Walter Seth Tasker Biggs, secretary and joint manager of the Millwall 
 Dock Company : 
 
 George Hazlehurst, superintendent and joint manager of the Millwall 
 Dock Company: 
 
 Louis Stephen White, clerk to the \V^atermen's Company : 
 68 
 
[8 Edw. 7.] Fort of London Act, 1908. [Oh. 68.] 
 
 Provided that— A.D. 1908. 
 
 (a) In the case of the said James Strarach Gaskell and Gilbert 
 William Wheeler the number of years to be added if they so 
 elect shall in lieu of such number as aforesaid be the number 
 of years added for the purposes of pension, under resolutions 
 passed by the Surrey Commercial Dock Company, dated the 
 twenty-third day of AprU one thousand nine hundred and 
 three, and the twenty -sixth day of March one thousand nine 
 hundred and eight respectively; and 
 {b) In the case of the said Walter Seth Tasker Biggs the emoluments 
 to which he was entitled at the date of the introduction of the 
 BiU for this Act as secretary of the Millwall Dock Equipment 
 Company shall, in the event of that Company being wound up 
 on the redemption and payment off of its stocks by the Port 
 Authority, be treated for the purposes of compensation and 
 pension as part of the emoluments of his office under the 
 Millwall Dock Company. 
 An appeal to the Treasury under this schedule shall not be made after 
 the expiration of three months from the decision of the Port Authority. 
 
 EIGHTH SCHEDULE. Section eo. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Indenture dated the seventeenth day of September one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety and made between the London and India Docks 
 Joint Committee of the first part, Henry Willey Williams, and Edward 
 Henry Baily of Dock House, Leadenhall Street, London, joint managers 
 of the London and India Docks Joint Committee, and others of the second 
 part, and Rodolph Alexander Hankey of No. 7, Mincing Lane, and others 
 of the third part. 
 
 Official Circular issued bj'^ order of the directors of the London and 
 India Docks Company and dated the fifteenth day of June one thousand 
 nine hundred and seven relating to an improved scheme of grants payable 
 at the death of officers and servants of that Company while in active 
 service or after retirement on pension. 
 
 Part II. 
 
 (1) Indenture dated the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight 
 
 hundred and ninety (being the original superannuation deed 
 of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company) : 
 
 (2) Indenture dated the tenth day of December one thousand eight 
 
 hundred and ninety-one : 
 
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[Ch. 68,] Fort of London Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.J 
 
 A.D. 1908. (3) Indenture dated the first day of December one thousand eight 
 
 hundred and ninety-two : 
 
 (4) Indenture dated the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight 
 
 hundred and ninety- six : 
 
 (5) Indenture dated the eleventh day of February one thousand' eight 
 
 hundred and ninety-seven : 
 
 (6) Indenture dated the seventh day of August one thousand nine 
 
 hundred and three (the five last- mentioned Indentures being 
 all supplemental to the first-mentioned Indenture) : 
 
 (7) Another Indenture dated the seventh day of August one thousand 
 
 nine' hundred and three (being the new superannuation deed 
 of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company) : 
 
 (8) Indenture dated the eighteenth day of June one thousand nine 
 
 hundred and eight supplemental to the last-mentioned 
 Indenture. 
 
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