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Harbour authorities to furnish information.
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7.—(1) The Minister may at any time require any harbour authority to furnish information in such form as the Minister directs in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—
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(a) the number and total tonnage of vessels, either generally or of any specified class, which have berthed in or otherwise used the harbour of such authority during any specified period;
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(b) the nature and the amount of cargo shipped, loaded or taken on or into such vessels;
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(c) the nature and the amount of cargo discharged or transhipped from such vessels;
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(d) the rates charged by such authority in respect of such vessels and such cargo respectively;
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(e) the revenue and expenditure of such authority over any specified period;
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(f) the assets and liabilities (if any) of such authority at any specified time;
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(g) any matter connected with or ancillary to any matter mentioned in any of the foregoing paragraphs of this section.
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(2) Whenever a harbour authority, on being required by the Minister under this section to furnish information to the Minister, fails or refuses so to furnish such information, such harbour authority shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
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