New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARITIME SERVICES ACT 1935 - SECT 13M

13M Construction of works and provision of services

(1) The Board may upon any land vested in it or under its control or management construct and enclose any embankment, retaining wall, reclamation, wharf, dock, pier, jetty, landing stage, mooring apparatus, slip, platform, or other structure or apparatus, or remove, alter, or repair the same.

(2) The Board may authorise the construction of any shed, warehouse, building of any description, embankment, retaining wall, reclamation, wharf, dock, pier, jetty, landing stage, slip, platform, tramway, railway, hoisting crane, shears, engine, or other structure or apparatus on any land subject to any lease or licence granted by it.

(3) The Board may upon any land vested in it:

(a) construct, erect, remove, alter or repair such depots, sheds and warehouses for the reception of goods, such other buildings of any description, and such tramways, railways, engines, cranes, hoisting and weighing machines, and other apparatus for facilitating the loading and discharging or the masting or unmasting of vessels or the testing of chains and anchors, and

(b) provide such other conveniences,

as it may think expedient for the efficient use of such land, or for the proper administration of its functions.

(4) The Board may, on land vested in it or under its control or management, operate any depots, sheds, warehouses, buildings, tramways, railways, engines, cranes, hoisting and weighing machines, and other apparatus and conveniences for the loading, unloading, transporting or storage of goods or otherwise on such conditions and for such fees as it deems appropriate, or may make such charges as it deems reasonable for the use thereof and for the services of any persons engaged in the conduct and operation thereof.

(5) Where money is appropriated by Parliament for the provision or maintenance on any land vested in the Board of any facility for commercial fishing operations or for recreational boating, those facilities shall be provided or maintained by the Board and in such manner as may be agreed upon between the Minister for Public Works and the Board.

(6) If the Minister for Public Works and the Board are unable to agree upon any matter arising under or in connection with subsection (5), the matter shall be referred to the Governor for settlement and any determination made by the Governor in pursuance of such a reference shall be final and binding on the Minister and the Board.