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PART III.
General Powers and Duties of the Board.
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General powers of the Board.
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13.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall, within or without the State, have, in addition to any other powers vested in, or conferred on, it by any other provision of this Act, power—
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(a) to operate transport services,
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(b) to consign merchandise,
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(c) to enter into and carry out agreements or arrangements with any person carrying on business as a carrier of passengers or merchandise, providing for the carriage of passengers or merchandise by or on behalf of the Board and that other person under one contract or at a through charge or in the same vehicles or containers, whether belonging to the Board or not,
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(d) to store merchandise, whether or not that merchandise has been or is to be carried by the Board,
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(e) to carry on any hotel, place of refreshment or refreshment service which was carried on by either dissolved undertaker or by any other transport undertaker whose or part of whose transport undertaking is acquired by the Board under this Act and to provide both for its passengers and for other persons, living accommodation, places of refreshment (including hotels and restaurants) and refreshment services,
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(f) to provide such amenities and facilities for passengers and other persons as it may appear to the Board requisite or expedient to provide,
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(g) to carry on any activities (whether mentioned in any previous paragraph of this subsection or not) which have been carried on by either dissolved undertaker or by any other transport undertaker whose or part of whose transport undertaking is acquired by the Board under this Act,
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(h) to construct, manufacture, purchase, hire, let, maintain and repair anything required for the purpose of carrying passengers or merchandise by rail, road, sea or inland waterway or otherwise for the purposes of a transport undertaking,
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(i) to provide and equip stations, depots, garages, quays, wharves, jetties, harbours, workshops, offices and other buildings and port facilities, and carry out other works in connection with or for the purposes of its undertaking,
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(j) to provide, own, hire, let or use railway rolling stock, road vehicles, ships, barges, lighters, tugs, ferry boats and other vehicles or craft moved, propelled or drawn by mechanical, electrical, animal or other motive power and run and operate the same,
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(k) to buy land, or take land on lease or under any form of tenancy,
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(l) to make working agreements or arrangements for the provision by any person of transport services which the Board is required or authorised to provide, or for the provision by the Board of any transport services which any other person has power to provide,
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(m) to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed or to be employed by the Board or the efficiency of the equipment of the Board or of the manner in which that equipment is operated including the provision by the Board and the assistance towards the provision by others of facilities for training, education and research.
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(n) to establish and support, or aid in the establishment and support of, associations, clubs, institutions, funds, trusts and conveniences calculated to promote the welfare of its employees or ex-employees and the dependants or relatives of such employees or ex-employees,
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(o) to make payments towards insurance for the benefit of all or any of its employees or ex-employees or the dependants or relatives of such employees or ex-employees,
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(p) to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any institution or any public, general or useful object,
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(q) to do all such other things which in the opinion of the Board are calculated to facilitate the proper carrying on of the business of the Board.
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(2) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that subsection (1) of this section relates only to the capacity of the Board as a statutory corporation, and nothing in that subsection shall be construed as authorising the disregard by the Board of any enactment or rule of law.
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(3) The Board may dispose, whether absolutely or for a term of years or for any lesser period, of any property which in the opinion of the Board is not required by it for the discharge of its duties.
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(4) The provisions of this section shall not be construed as limiting any power of the Board conferred by or under any other provision of this Act.
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