Cap. 352 Art. 27Power to make regulations to levy dues, charges or fees.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may, after consultation with the Authority, make regulations -

(a) for the levying of dues, charges or fees upon any ship, that is to say -

passengers, animals or cargo carried by any ship;

(iii) pilotage, lighting, mooring, buoyage, anchorage or accostage dues or other dues, charges or fees on ships;

(b) for the levying of any charges or of rates for the use of any works, appliances or equipment provided or any service performed or to be performed in respect of any ship or of any goods, by the Authority or by a contractor, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for any of the following:

(i) the landing, shipping, wharfage, craneage, storage, carriage or demurrage of goods discharged from, or loaded on, or presented for loading on, any ship;

(ii) the use by any ship, or person of any wharf, quay, pier, dock, landing place or other facility or installation owned by the Authority or over which it exercises authority;

(iii) the use of any gear, tackle, tools, instruments, equipment, staging or vehicles supplied by the Authority or by a contractor;

(iv) the use of any ship or lighter, or any engine, boat or vehicle, or of any appliance for the extinction of fire owned or administered by or in the possession of the Authority or a contractor;

(v) the towing of, the rendering assistance and service to, any ship, in any place;

(vi) for the supply of water to any ship by the Authority or by a contractor;

(vii) the charges or rates payable by consignees, consigors or shippers of goods to persons undertaking the unloading, landing, loading, shipping, or handling of goods between ship’s hold or deck and rail, ramp, door or ship’s tackle or any wharf or other place appointed for the purpose or between ship’s rail, ramp, door or ship’s tackle and any wharf;

(c) conferring power on the Authority to assimilate for any of the purposes of article 14, any work, service or facility which is not specifically mentioned in any regulations made under this subarticle to those specifically mentioned in such regulations with which, in the opinion of the Authority, they bear an analogy;

(d) prescribing the conditions under which any work or service in respect of which a rate or a charge is levied will be performed or provided by the Authority or a refund or remission thereof, or of part thereof;

(f) prescribing fees in respect of any licence or permit issued or given by the Authority under any of the provisions of this Act;

(g) prescribing anything that is to be, or may be prescribed, under this Act;

(h) generally for giving better effect to any of the provisions of this Act.

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, regulations made under this article may -

(a) prescribe different dues, rates, charges or fees for different ports and for yachting centres;

(b) prescribe different dues, rates, charges or fees for different classes of ships, or passengers, animals or goods;

(c) make provision allowing the Authority to enter into special agreements with respect to any matter referred to in this article in place of any dues, rates, charges or fees leviable under this Act.