Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

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Power of Board to prohibit navigation.

12.—(1) The Board may by order, whenever they think it to be necessary for the due carrying out of an approved scheme or the operation of works constructed in pursuance of an approved scheme, prohibit, during such period as they shall consider to be necessary for the purposes of such carrying out or such operation (as the case may be), navigation in or upon the river, or any particular part of the river, to which such approved scheme relates or related.

(2) An order may be made by the Board under the foregoing subsection of this section notwithstanding any enactment declaring the river to which such order relates to be a public navigable river.

(3) Every order made by the Board under this section shall be expressed and shall operate to prohibit the passage of any person with any boat, barge, lighter, or other vessel in or upon the river or the particular part of the river to which such order relates during the period specified in that behalf in such order.

(4) Every person who contravenes any provision of an order made by the Board under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.