Ports (Finance) Act 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1985 c. 30 |
(1) The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, make grants to the National Dock Labour Board in respect of costs incurred by the Board for the purpose of reducing the number of registered dock workers.(2) Any sums required by the Secretary of State for making grants under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament; and in making such a grant the Secretary of State may impose such conditions as he thinks fit.(3) The aggregate amount of grants made under this section shall not exceed £10 million or such larger sum (not exceeding £40 million) as may be specified by an order made by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury.(4) The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.(5) In this section “registered dock workers” means the persons whose names are entered in any register of dock workers kept under any scheme for the time being in force under the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946.In section 1(3) of the
(1) Where by virtue of an existing local provision any power of a relevant harbour authority with respect to borrowing, the repayment of a loan or the application of borrowed money is subject to the consent or approval of a Minister of the Crown, it may be exercised without that consent or approval.if a limit is specified in that provision on the sums that may be borrowed with such consent or approval, the amount of that limit; orif no limit is so specified, an amount equal to the aggregate of the sums specified in the consents or approvals given under that provision before the coming into force of this section,(3) Where a relevant harbour authority may by virtue of an existing local provision borrow any amount without the consent or approval of a Minister of the Crown and, by virtue of that or another such provision, may borrow a further amount with such consent or approval, the amount which may be borrowed without such consent or approval shall be increased by 20 per cent.(4) Any amount specified in an existing local provision as a limit on the sums that may be borrowed by a relevant harbour authority and any such limit which applies by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) above shall, if it would not otherwise do so, apply to the amount for the time being outstanding in respect of money borrowed under the power to which the limit applies.(1) Where by virtue of an existing local provision any function of appointing or revoking the appointment of the auditor of a relevant harbour authority or determining the amount of the remuneration or expenses payable to such an auditor is exercisable by a Minister of the Crown, it shall be exercisable instead by the authority itself; and any requirement that the consent or approval of such a Minister be given with respect to the exercise of such a function shall cease to have effect.(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any such provision, a person F1shall not be appointed as auditor of a
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