Milford Docks Act 1953
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1 & 2 ELIZ( 2 Milford Docks Act, 1953 Ch. x
CHAPTER x
An Act to make provision with respect to the rates and
charges leviable by the Milford Docks Company to
confer further powers upon the Company to con-
solidate with amendments certain of the statutory
powers of the Company and for other purposes.
[6th May 1953.]
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HEREAS the Milford Docks Company (hereinafter
referred to as " the Company ") were incorporated by
the Milford Docks Act 1874 and have constructed docks
and works at Milford in the county of Pembroke (hereinafter
referred to as " the Milford Docks "):
And whereas the Company were authorised by the Milford
Docks Acts 1874 >to 1935 to demand and take rates rents and
charges on (inter alia) vessels resorting to the Milford Docks
and on goods shipped and unshipped thereat and in respect of
certain services provided by them:
And whereas the Minister of Transport in exercise of the
powers conferred upon him by Regulation 56 of the Defence
(General) Regulations 1939 as having effect by virtue of the
Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act 1945 (as
extended by the Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) Act
1947) authorised the Company by the Milford Docks (Increase
of Charges) Order 1950 to increase by an amount not exceeding
seventy-five per centum all or any of the rates rents and charges
specified in the schedule thereto:
And whereas it is anticipated that the said increased rates
rents and charges and the right of the Company to impose
the same will shortly cease to remain in operation and to be
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Division of Act
into Parts.
And whereas on the cesser of the powers conferred by the
said Order of 1950 the resources of the Company will be
insufficient to meet the expenditure necessarily incurred by
them in carrying on efficiently the undertaking of the Company
and it is necessary that the said undertaking should continue to
be so carried on and it is expedient that the said increased rates
rents and charges and the right of the Company to imipose the
same should continue in operation and to be exercisable:
And whereas it is expedient to redefine the provisions which
regulate the capital and borrowing powers of the Company
and the administration of their affairs:
And whereas it is expedient to consolidate with amendments
certain of the statutory powers of the Company and to confer
upon the Company such other powers in relation to their under-
taking as are in this Act contained:
, And whereas it is expedient that the other powers contained
in this Act should be enacted:.
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
May k therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the Queen'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 (that is to
say):
—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Milford Docks Act
1953.
(2) The Milford Docks Acts 1874 to 1935 and this Act may
be cited together as the Milford Docks Acts 1874 to 1953.
2.
This Act is divided into Parts as follows:
Part
Part
Part
Part
Part
Part
I.—Preliminary.
II.—Docks.
III.—Rates.
IV.—Finance.
V.—Administration
VI.—General.
Incorporation
of Acts.
3.—(i)
xhe following enactments so far as
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the same are
applicable to the ipurposes and are not inconsistent with the
provisions of the Milford Docks Acts 1874 to 1953 are hereby
incorporated with this Act
(namely):
—
(a) The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (except
sections 38 to 60 thereof);
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(b) The Companies Clauses Act 1863 (except sections 13 PART I
to 15 and Part IV thereof):
—cont.
Provided that section 22 of the said Act of 1863
shall be read and have effect as if—
(i) after the words " may from time to time raise "
there were inserted the words " the amount so
authorised by the special Act"; and;
(ii) the words " all or any part of the money which
for the time being they have raised or are authorised
to raise on mortgage or bond " and the words " in-
stead of and to the same amount as the whole or any
part of the money which may for the time being be
owing by the Company on mortgage or bond or
which they may from time to time have power to
raise on mortgage or bond " were omitted there-
from.
(c) The Harbours Clauses Act 1847 (except sections 12 and
13 16 to 19 25 and 26 and 84 to 87 thereof):
Provided that in the application of the said Act of
1847 to this Act—
(i) the said Act of 1847 shall be read and have
effect as if the word " vessel " as defined in this Act
were substituted for the meaning assigned to that
word by section 3 of the said Act of 1847 ;
(ii) nothing in the said Act of 1847 shall require
or authorise the dock master to require the dis-
mantling of a seaplane or any part thereof or the
making of any alteration whatever of the structure
or equipment of a seaplane.
(2) In the construction of the enactments so incorporated
with this Act the expression " special Act" shall be read as
a reference to this Act and the expression " company " shall
mean the Company.
4.—(1) In this Act the following words and expressions have interpretation
the several meanings hereby assigned to them respectively unless
there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction (that is to
say):
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" the Act of 1874 " means the Milford Docks Act 1874 ;
" the Company " means the Milford Docks Company ;
" the directors " means the directors for the time being of
the Company;
" the dock master " includes every officer of the Company
having the powers of a dock master under the Har-
bours Clauses Act 1847;
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