Sandwich Port and Haven Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. cxxvii |
| Year | 1925 |
[15 & 16
GEO.
5.] Sandwich Port and [Ch. CXXVii J
Haven Act, 1925.
CHAPTER cxxvii.
An Act to provide for the conservancy, regulation,
A.D.
1925.
management and improvement of the Port and
Haven of Sandwich, and for purposes con-
nected therewith. [22nd December 1925.]
W
HEREAS the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of
the,Borough and Port of Sandwich in the county
of Kent (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation")
are the Conservators of the Sandwich Port and Haven:
And whereas by the Sandwich Haven Improvement
and Regulation Act, 1847, (in this Act referred to as
" the principal Act") the powers of the Corporation for
the regulation and management of the Sandwich Port
and Haven and of certain public quays, wharves and
landing places belonging to the Corporation at the town
and port of Sandwich were defined and rendered more
effectual, and the Corporation were empowered to levy
tolls,
rates, duties and charges upon all vessels using the
said haven and upon all goods brought upon any of the
said public quays, wharves and landing places :
And whereas His Majesty's Secretary of State for
War (in this Act referred to as " the Secretary of Sta,te ")
has acquired and is in possession of certain lands and
property near the Borough and Port of Sandwich lying
along or adjacent to the Sandwich Port and Haven and
known as the Richborough Port and Depot and the
buildings, plant and other property belonging to the said
port and depot:
[Price
25.
Net.] A I
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Sandwich Port and [15 & 16
GEO.
5.]
Haven Act, 1925.
A.D.
1925. And whereas the Corporation are willing that,
— subject to the provisions of this Act, their rights and
powers as Conservators of the Sandwich Port and Haven
should be transferred to Commissioners constituted as by
this Act provided:
And whereas it as expedierit that Commissioners
should be constituted as by this Act provided and should,
subject to the provisions of this Act,'be empowered to
regulate, maintain and improve the Sandwich Port and
Haven and the navigation
thereof,
and for those purposes
to levy rates as hi this Act provided^ and to borrow
money and to fexercise" the jpowers and- jurisdiction by
this Act conferred :
And whereas it is expedient that the rates leviable
under the principal Act in respect of vessels and goods
entering or leaving the Sandwich Portland Haven
should be revised :
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
contained in this Act should have effect:
And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the King'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
v—
PART I.
CONSTITUTION OF COMMISSIONERS.
1*—(1)
There shall be constituted for the purposes
of this Act seven Commissioners who shall be a body
corporate by the name of " The Sandwich Port and
Haven Commissioners," with perpetual succession and a
common seal and. power to acquire and hold land
without licence in mortmain.
(2) The Commissioners shall be appointed as
follows:—
An independent chairman by the Minister of
Transport (in this Act referred to as *' the
Minister");
.Three by. the Secretary of' State; ,and.
Three by the Corporation.
Constitu-
tion of
Commis-
sioners.
[15 & 16.GrE0. 5.] Sandwich Port and [Ch. CXXVlL]
Haven Act, 1925.
(3) The Commissioners may pay to the. chairman A.D. 1925,
such remuneration, either by way of salary or otherwise -*-*••
as the Commissioners with the consent of the Minister
may determine.
(4) If at any time the Secretary of State sells, the
lands and property, known as the Richborough Port
and Depot his right of ^appointing commissioners under
this section shall oh the completion of the sale, by virtue
of this Act be transferred to and vest in the purchaser,
and the purchaser, if. at any time he sells any interest
in the said port and depot so acquired by him to some
other person, may transfer' to that person and his
successors in title a right exercisable so long as such
interest is retained by that person or'his successors in
title,
as the case may be, of appointing commissioners
under this Act, and this Act shall in such cases as'
aforesaid have effect accordingly.
Notice of any such transfer shall be sent to the clerk
to the Commissioners forthwith by the vendor, and shall,.
be evidence of the facts therein stated.
2.—(1) The chairman and the commissioners ap- Term
of
pointed by the Secretary of State shall be appointed as o^e of
soon as may be after the passing of this Act for a period c ^oTco
of three years, or such less period as the Minister pr missi0ners
Secretary of State, as the case may be, may think fit.. appointed
(2) The Minister and the Secretary of State may by Secre-
appoint a chairman and commissioners respectively
;
to
*ar-y
of
fill vacancies from time to time in like manner, and. a e'
a chairman or commissioner who retires at the end of
the period for which he was appointed shall be eligible
for re-appointment.
3.—(1)
The Commissioners appointed by the Cor- Term of
poration shall, in the first instance, be appointed within °^e' &c;>
six weeks after the passing of this Act. One of such
gjoft^miS"
Commissioners shall retire on the ninth day of November, appointed
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, another on the same by Corpora -
day in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and ti°n..'
the third on the same day in the
j^ear
nineteen hundred
and twenty-eight. The Corporation. shall determine the
rotation of such retirements at the time of appointing the
Commissioners.
(2).
On the ninth day of November, nineteen, hundred
and twenty-six, and thereafter on some date in the month
of JQoyember in each successive year, the Corporation
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