An Act to amend the Petroleum Acts, 1871 and 1879. Brought from the Lords 6 May 1926. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 28 June 1926. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. Provisional Order. A BILL то 5 Confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister A.D. 1926. WHEREAS a Provision the der the Minister HEREAS a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the General Pier and Harbour 24 & 25 Vict. Act 1861 is not of any validity or force whatever until c. 45. the confirmation thereof by Act of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the said Act and set out in the schedule to this Act be confirmed by Act of Parliament : Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent 10 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: : 1. The Order as amended and set out in the Confirma15 schedule to this Act shall be and the same is hereby tion of confirmed and all the provisions thereof in manner and Order in schedule. form as they are set out in the said schedule shall from and after the passing of this Act have full validity and force. 2. This Act may be cited as the Pier and Harbour Short title. 20 Order Confirmation Act 1926. A.D. 1926. Provisional Order. SCHEDULE. Short titles and construction. Commencement of Order. Interpretation of terms. Increase of dues and rates. INVERNESS HARBOUR. Provisional Order to increase the maximum dues and rates leviable by the Trustees of the Harbour of Inverness. 1. This Order may be cited as the Inverness Harbour Order 5 1926 and shall be read with the Inverness Harbour Acts 1808 to 1911 as amended and varied by this Order and the said Order and Acts may be cited together as the Inverness Harbour Acts 1808 to 1926. 2. This Order shall come into operation upon the day 10 when the Act confirming this Order is passed and that day is in this Order referred to as the commencement of this Order." 66 3. In this Order unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction the several words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Order 15 of 1911 shall so far as applicable and subject to the provisions of this Order have the same respective meanings and the following words shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them namely: "The Order of 1911 means the Inverness Harbour Order 20 1911: 66 Authorised rates means the dues and rates which the Trustees are for the time being authorised to levy demand and recover in pursuance of the Inverness Harbour Acts 1808 to 1926 and "authorised rate means any one of the said dues and rates. 25 4. As from the commencement of this Order the provisions of the Order of 1911 shall be read and have effect as if the dues and rates prescribed by section 72 (Power to levy rates) and Schedules D, E and F of the Order of 1911 were in each case 30 increased by fifty per centum : Provided that if any due or rate levied in pursuance of this Order includes a fraction of a farthing the fraction if less than half a farthing shall not be charged and if the fraction amounts to half a farthing but is less than a farthing it shall be charged 35 as a farthing. Provisional Order. 5 10 15 20 25 309 35 40 45 5. Section 86 (Rates to be revised) of the Order of 1911 shall be and the same is hereby repealed and the following provisions shall apply and have effect in lieu thereof :— A.D. 1926. Revision of authorised (1) If it is represented by application in writing to the rates. (a) by any chamber of commerce or shipping or (b) by the Trustees that under the circumstances then existing the authorised (2) Where upon an application for revision of authorised (3) The provisions of Part I of the Board of Trade (a) As if the Minister were referred to therein in (b) As if the person or persons duly authorised to hold any inquiry thereunder were the rates advisory committee constituted under the Ministry of Transport Act 1919 or any sub-committee thereof to which the said advisory committee may under section 2 of the Harbours Docks and Piers (Temporary Increase of Charges) Act 1920 have delegated their powers or in the event of the said advisory committee ceasing to exist some persons with similar A.D. 1926. Annual account to Ministry of Confirma tion of byelaws. Provisional Order. qualifications to be appointed for the purpose by an order of the Minister under section 2 of the said Act of 1874; and (c) As if in section 4 of the said Act of 1874 the words "under the seal of the Minister of Transport" 5 were substituted for the words "by writing under "the hand of the president or of one of the secretaries of the Board": 66 (4) An application made to the Minister under this section 6. Section 106 (Annual account to be sent to Board of Trade) of the Order of 1911 shall be and the same is hereby 20 repealed and the following provisions shall apply and have effect in lieu thereof : (1) The Trustees shall within three months after the date accounts: (2) The Trustees shall as from the expiration of that period 30 7. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Inverness |