Regulations for loading, and unloading, etc., at piers, wharves, etc

(1) The Minister may, from time to time, make regulations– (a) to prohibit the loading or unloading of timber, logwood, lumber, machinery, heavy packing cases, and other heavy goods or things, and the hauling up or launching of boats and doreys at or from any pier, bridge, or wharf, or at or from any point or place on the shore of the sea or on the bank of any river or canal; (b) to impose conditions which are to be observed by those loading or unloading, hauling up or launching any of the things aforesaid in order to prevent damage from being done to any pier, bridge, wharf, wall, staking, shore or bank; (c) to limit the time within which any cargo which it is intended to load into any vessel, or boat, or which has been discharged from any vessel or boat may remain on any pier, bridge, road, or wharf, or on any point or place on the shore of the sea or on the bank of any river or canal; (d) to regulate the manner in which vessels, boats and rafts may be fastened to or brought or kept alongside of any pier, bridge, wharf, wall, staking, shore, or bank, and to prevent vessels, boats or rafts from being so fastened, brought, or kept as to injure any such pier, bridge, wharf, wall, staking, shore or bank. Harbours and Merchant Shipping [CAP. 234 39 (2) Repealed. (3) Nothing contained in sub-section (2), shall affect the right to recover damages for any injury which may be done to any pier, bridge, wharf, wall, staking, shore or bank. etc.