230 Fuel Oil

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #5

CHAPTER 230.

FUEL OIL.

AN ACT TO PREVENT PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF THE SHIPS OF ANY NATIONALITY BY COMPANIES, FIRMS OR PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE SUPPLY OF FUEL IN THE COLONY.

5 of 1926.

[22nd March 1926.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Fuel Oil Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'oil' means fuel oil for the use of ships, whether burnt under boilers or consumed in internal combustion engines;

   'person' includes an agent or manager;

   'rules' means rules made under this Act;

   'station' means an oil bunkering station, and includes any building or place intended for the storage or supply of oil.

3. It shall not be lawful for any person to establish a station in ithe Colony without first obtaining a licence under this Act.

4. The Governor may make rules(a) imposing conditions under which a licence may be granted;

   (b) for the prevention of preferential treatment of ships of any nationality by any person engaged in the supply of oil;

   (c) prescribing the form of licence to be issued under this Act;

   (d) generally for the purposes of this Act.

5. -(1) The Governor may grant a licence to any person desirous of establishing a station in accordance with this Act, and every such licence shall remain in force until cancelled under this Act.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   Licence required to establish station.

   Rules.

   Power of Governor to grant licences.

   (2) No such licence, or any interest thereunder shall be assigned without the written consent of the Governor.

   (3) The Governor may at any time on good cause shown cancel any licence granted under this Act.

   Contracts contrary to provision of Act, unenforceable.

   Penalty and persons liable to same.

6. No action shall be brought upon any contract, agreement or undertaking entered into by any person conflicting with the terms of this Act or the rules or of any licence issued hereunder.

7. -(1) Any person committing a breach of this Act, or the rules, or of the terms of any licence issued hereunder, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall be liable to a fine of two hundred pounds;

   and in the case of a company or firm, every director or manager thereof who shall knowingly or wilfully authorise or permit any such breach shall...