CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947 — Page 163

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(b) the use of the harbours and their facilities by vessels and

aircraft and the agents, owners, masters or consignees of

the same; and for the lease or allotment of any of the

harbour property, plant or facilities;

() the regulation of the construction and maintenance of

wharves, piers, buildings or any other structures within the

limits of the harbours, and anything incidental thereto;

(a) the imposition and collection of tolls for any use of any

bridge or ferry under the administration, management and

control of the Port Trust;

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(e) the imposition and collection of rates and tolls on vessels

or aircraft entering, using or leaving any of the harbours;

on passengers; on cargoes, on goods or cargo of any kind

landed, shipped, transhipped, and/or stored in any of the

harbours and/or moved over harbour tracks, and for the use

of any wharf, building, plant, property or facility under

the jurisdiction of the Port Trust and for any service

performed by the Port Trust;

(f) the regulation of all plant, machinery or appliances, whether

floating or not, for loading or unloading vessels, including

the power to prescribe that none shall enter any harbour or

remain in it without the permission of the Port Trust, and

power to levy a rate or sum of money thereon for the

privilege of operating in the harbours, and to regulate and

control charges for such services;

(g) the registration and licensing of all vessels under 60 tons

measurement;

(h) the control and licensing of pilots, watermen and such

other persons engaged in the work of operating the services

of the Port as the Port Trust may think desirable.

(i) the prescribing of penalties that may be imposed on any

person violating or not observing any by-law which the Port

Trust is authorised to make under this Ordinance, but no

such penalty shall exoeed five hundred dollars or sixty days'

imprisonment, or in default of payment of a pecuniary

penalty and of the costs of conviction, imprisonment for a

period not exceeding thirty days;

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