Harbours Act, 1946
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General Manager and Secretary. |
39.—(1) A harbour authority mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act shall from time to time appoint a person to be General Manager of their harbour. | |
(2) The office of General Manager of a harbour shall be an office to which the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts, 1926 and 1940, as applied by this Act, apply. | ||
(3) The General Manager of a harbour shall be the chief executive officer of the harbour authority for the harbour. | ||
(4) The General Manager of a harbour shall, subject to the overriding control of the harbour authority for the harbour, have control of all other officers and servants of the harbour authority and such officers and servants shall report to him or to the harbour authority through him. | ||
(5) Any engagement or discharge of an employee (other than an officer) of a harbour authority mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act, being an employee to whose appointment the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts, 1926 and 1940, as applied by this Act, do not apply, shall be carried out as follows, and not otherwise, that is to say, by the General Manager or an officer of the harbour authority authorised in that behalf by the General Manager. | ||
(6) The General Manager of a harbour shall have the right to attend meetings of the harbour authority for the harbour and to take part in the discussions at such meetings as if he were a member of the harbour authority, but he shall not be entitled to vote on any question which is to be decided by a vote of the members of the harbour authority. | ||
(7) The General Manager of a harbour may suspend any officer of the harbour authority of the harbour, but any such suspension may be determined by the harbour authority. | ||
(8) The harbour authority of a harbour may suspend or, with the sanction of the Minister, remove the General Manager of the harbour, but no such suspension or removal shall be effected save by a resolution passed by the harbour authority for the purpose of such removal or suspension (as the case may be) and for the passing of which not less than two-thirds of the members of the harbour authority voted and which was so passed after not less than seven days' notice of the intention to propose the resolution had been given by post to every member of the harbour authority. | ||
(9) A harbour authority of a harbour mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act may from time to time with the consent of the Minister appoint, in addition to the General Manager, a person to be secretary of their harbour, and the office of secretary shall be an office to which the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts, 1926 and 1940, as applied by this Act, apply. |