Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

DARWIN PORT CORPORATION ACT - SECT 17

(1) Subject to section 15, the Port Corporation has power to do all things that by or under this Act it is required or permitted to do, or that are necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or that are reasonably incidental to, the performance of its functions.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Port Corporation has power to -

(a) purchase or lease or otherwise acquire land and construct buildings for use in the performance of its functions;

(b) dispose of land by way of sale, lease, licence or sub-lease;

(c) control the use of the foreshores in the Port subject to any right of tenancy or occupation granted by or under a law of the Territory;

(d) purchase, lease or take on hire plant, machinery, equipment or other things necessary for the performance of its functions and to sell, lease, hire or otherwise dispose of any plant, machinery, equipment or other things owned by it;

(e) appoint agents;

(f) impose dues and levy charges for or in respect of the Port on shipping using the Port or in respect of the use of a port facility provided or for an operation carried on by it or its agents in the Port;

(g) impose charges for or in respect of prescribed substances passing through the Port or any part thereof, regardless of whether there is any use of a port facility provided or any benefit is received from an operation carried on by it or its agents in the Port;

(ga) impose charges and fees for the conduct of activities in the Port, or the use of facilities of the Port Authority, for recreational, tourist and commercial purposes;

(h) enter into contracts and agreements for or in respect of the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by it;

(j) accept, hold and enforce undertakings, indemnities, bonds or securities protecting it against loss or damage;

(k) seize, remove, attach or dispose of a vessel, hulk or hull which is unsafe, sunk or stranded within the Port;

(m) construct in the Port such roadways, railways or tramways as are necessary or convenient for the performance of its functions;

(n) construct within the Port or on land under its control wharves, warehouses, tanks, bins, storehouses or port facilities;

(na) construct, within the Port, buildings or facilities for use in connection with recreational, tourist and commercial activities;

(p) issue a licence to a person, subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, for the carrying on of the business of a stevedore within the Port and it may make as a condition of the licence that the person, to whom a licence is issued, only impose a reasonable charge for any services rendered not exceeding those charges determined from time to time by it;

(q) impose a fee for the issue of a licence to a stevedore and for the renewal of such a licence;

(r) authorize the setting apart of wharves, docks, sheds, warehouses or port facilities for the use of specified persons or vessels;

(s) establish and conduct business as a stevedore, warehouseman, carter or carrier;

(sa) manage, establish and conduct business in connection with recreational, tourist and commercial activities;

(t) appoint officers, who are employees, for the purposes of carrying out the powers and functions vested in it under this Act;

(u) regulate and control the driving and parking of vehicles within the Port or on its land;

(w) regulate and control the conduct and behaviour of persons within the Port or on its land and the conditions upon which persons may be admitted to or excluded from any part of the Port or its land; and

(y) do anything incidental to any of its powers.