232 Abutments (out Islands)

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 232.

ABUTMENTS (OUT ISLANDS).

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE BUILDING OF WHARVES OR ABUTMENTS IN THE PORTS AND HARBOURS IN THE OUT ISLANDS.

[5th May 1883.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Abutments (Out Islands) Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Minister' means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the administration of this Act.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant permission to any person or persons residing and being in any such district, to build a wharf or abutment, from the private land of such person or persons which may abut on to the port or harbour of the district in which such application is made, into such port or harbour:

   Provided that such permission shall only be granted by the Governor after a written application therefor has been made and a plan of the proposed wharf or abutment has been submitted to the Minister and approved by him, which application and plan shall be retained and kept by him as a record in the Department of Public Works:

   Provided also that if any wharf or abutment built under the provisions of this Act shall extend across any public highway the rights of the public to the user of such highway shall not be thereby abridged, but the same may be exercised over and across such wharf or abutment notwithstanding the provisions of this Act.

   21 of 1883.

   G.N. 7 (20) of 1964.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   G.N. 7 (20) of 1964.

   Leave to build out wharf or abutment.

   G.N. 7 (20) of 1964.

4. It shall be the duty of every person or persons Wharf mustbe built by plan obtaining such permission, and building a wharf or bandkeptinn abutment thereunder, to build the same in accordance repair.

   with the plan submitted to the Minister, and to K

   232.1 ABUTMENTS (OUT ISLANDS).

   Right of inspection.

   G.N. 7 (20) of 1964.

   Notice in writing to repair wharf.

   Penalty.

   maintain and keep the said wharf or abutment in good order and repair and so that the same shall not impede or interfere in any way with the proper navigation of the port or harbour in which the...