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Docks and Harbours Act 1966 (c.28)

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Docks and Harbours Act 1966

1966 CHAPTER 28

An Act make further provision for regulating the employment of dock workers, including provision for compensating persons prohibited from employing, or working on their own account as, dock workers and for raising sums required for paying such compensation; to make provision for welfare amenities in ports; to confer additional powers on harbour authorities; to provide for the assumption by harbour authorities as successors to certain other harbour authorities of a proportion of the debts of those other authorities; to make further provision for giving financial assistance in connection with the construction and improvement of harbours and the carrying out of harbour operations, and with respect to the orders and schemes which may be made under the Harbours Act 1964, the charges which may be made by certain harbour authorities and lighthouse authorities, the policing of harbours and the furnishing of information and forecasts and the promotion of research, training and education under that Act; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[9th August 1966]

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Commencement Information

I1Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 60(2)-(4).

Part I Control of Employment of Dock Workers

. . F1

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Amendments (Textual)

F1Pt. I (ss. 1–24) repealed by Dock Work Act 1989 (c. 13, SIF 43:1), s. 7(1)(5), Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 2 para. 9