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Regulation of Harbour traffic and the
promulgation of the necessary byelaws for
this purpose.
The general policy of the Harbour. (Paragraph
83(e)).
(6) The rents of the piers, the charges for the use of
mooring buoys, the charges levied upon the ferry
owners in the form of royalties, etc., and the
light dues to be paid to the Trust. (Paragraph
83(1)).
(7) No charges or rents to be levied by the Trust without
the consent of the Governor thereto having been
first obtained. (Paragraph 83(g)).
(a) The necessary staff for the working of the Trust to be
supplied by the Government from their official
establishment, for the experimental period of
three years. (Paragraph 83(h)).
(9) The Trust to regulate its own procedure with the
proviso that a quorum at any meeting should be
four, and no Trustee to be allowed to vote on
any question directly affecting his own or his
firm's business. (Paragraph 83(1)).
(10) The policy to be adopted by the Trust to be that of
seeing that adequate and proper facilities are
available in the Harbour for ships and their
cargoes, but to allow approved private
enterprise to provide these facilities as far
as possible and also to let private enterprise
do its own operating. (Paragraph 83(j)). This
would involve the renewal of the pier leases
which expire in 1949, (except in those cases
where new piers would be provided, which would
require special treatment as mentioned in paragraph 89), and the issue of new leases as
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