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HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - LONG TITLE

An Act to facilitate the Construction and Improvement of Harbours by
authorizing Loans to Harbour Authorities; to abolish Passing Tolls;
and for other Purposes.
[1st August 1861]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1892

Short title.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Harbours and
Passing Tolls, &c. Act, 1861".

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 2
Interpretation of terms:

2. In the construction of this Act the following expressions shall
have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless such meanings are
inconsistent with the context; that is to say,

Definition rep. by SLR 1892

The word "harbour" shall include harbours properly so called, whether
natural or artificial, estuaries, navigable rivers, piers, jetties,
and other works in or at which ships can obtain shelter, or ship
and unship goods or passengers:

"Harbour authority" shall include all persons, or bodies of persons,
corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of or intrusted with
the duty of constructing, improving, managing, maintaining, or
lighting any harbour:

Definitions rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1971 c.1 (NI) s.36 sch.6

Part I (s.3) rep. by 1953 c.13 (NI) s.4 sch.

Part II (ss.4, 5) rep. by SLR (NI) 1954

Part III (ss.69) rep. by SLR 1875; SLR 1950; SLR (NI) 1954

Part IV (ss.1016) rep. by SLR 1875; 1970 c.1 (NI) s.36 sch.6

Part V (ss.1720) rep. by 1970 c.1 (NI) s.36 sch.6

Title of Board of Trade.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 65

65. The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the
consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations
may be described in all Acts of Parliament, deeds, contracts, and
other instruments, by the official title of "the Board of Trade"
without expressing their names; and all Acts of Parliament,
contracts, deeds, and other instruments wherein they are so
described, shall be as valid as if the said Lords or any of them
had been named therein.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 66
Vesting of property in Board of Trade.

66. All lands and hereditaments heretofore purchased or taken by or
in the name or names of any person or persons, for the use of
the department of the Board of Trade, and all land and
hereditaments hereby transferred to and vested in the Board of
Trade, and all lands and hereditaments that may hereafter be
conveyed to the Board of Trade, or to any other person or persons
for the use of the department of the Board of Trade, shall, upon
and after the passing of this Act, vest in the Board of Trade,
and shall be held by such persons and their successors in office
on trust for Her Majesty for the public service.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 67
Execution of instruments.

67. Any deed, contract, or other instrument to be executed by or
on behalf of the Board of Trade shall be valid if under the seal
of the Board of Trade and signed by the President or Vice-President
thereof, or signed, if there be no President or Vice-President, by
any one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 68
Disposition of monies arising from sales, &c.

68. The monies to arise by any sale of land made by the Board of
Trade shall be paid to such persons as the said Board appoint; and
a receipt signed by the President or Vice-President of the said
Board, or, if there be no such officers, by any one of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, shall be an effectual
discharge to the purchaser.

HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &C. ACT 1861 - SECT 69
Power of Board of Trade to purchase lands.

69. The Board of Trade may purchase any lands they may require for
the public service; and for the purposes of such purchase the
clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, ... and of
any Act amending the same, with the exception of such clauses of
the said Act as relate to the purchase of lands otherwise than by
agreement, and to access to the special Act, shall be incorporated
with this Act.

First Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1954. Second Schedule rep. by SLR
1875