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Validation. (25 of 1986.)
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Shipping and Port Control
[1986 Ed.
(u) establishing piers and terminals and controlling their use;
(v) empowering the Director to give directions in any particular case in relation to such matters as may be specified;
(w) empowering the Director to amend any Schedule to such regulations;
(x) prescribing any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(y) providing generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
(1A) Any port dues or other fees or charges prescribed under this Ordinance may be fixed at levels which provide for the recovery of expenditure incurred or likely to be incurred by the Government or other authority in relation generally to the administration, regulation and control of ports, vessels and navigation in the waters of Hong Kong, and shall not be limited by reference to the amount of administrative or other costs incurred or likely to be incurred in the provision of any particular service, facility or matter. (Added, 25 of 1986, s. 2)
(1B) Port dues and other fees and charges prescribed under this Ordinance may, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1A)-
(a) in relation to moorings, be fixed having regard to any or all of the following-
(i) the size, whether measured by tonnage, length or otherwise, of any vessel moored or capable of being moored, at any mooring;
(ii) sums paid to owners of moorings by persons wishing to use or acquire them; and
(iii) the locations of moorings; and
(b) in any case be fixed at different amounts in relation to different sizes of vessel, whether measured by tonnage, length or otherwise, or in relation to different classes, types or descriptions of service, facility, licence or vessel. (Added, 25 of 1986, s. 2)
(2) Any regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof is an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.
81. For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that the Shipping and Port Control (Fees) Ordinance 1986 shall apply in relation to any port dues or other fees or charges specified in regulations made before its commencement*, and not revoked prior thereto, as it applies in relation to port dues and other fees and charges prescribed thereafter. (25 of 1986, s. 4, incorporated)