General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861 Amendment Act, 1862

Recovery of expenses from undertakers.

10.[1] Whenever the Admiralty, under the authority of this Act, do any act or thing in relation to any works authorized by any provisional order, which they are by this Act authorized to do at the expense of the undertakers, the amount of such expense shall be a debt due to the Crown from the undertakers, and shall be recoverable as such, with costs; or the same may be recovered with costs as a penalty is or may be recoverable from the undertakers.

[1 In Sections 7–11 the Board of Trade are substituted for the Admiralty, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 69. s. 14.]