Section 27 — BINTULU PORT AUTHORITY ACT 1981

(a)

the landing, shipping, wharfage, lighterage, cranage and storage of goods, and the use of the Authority’s vessels and vehicles and demurrage thereon;

(b)

the mooring of vessels and boats;

(c)

the carriage of goods by vehicles (whether plying for hire or otherwise);

(d)

the embarkation and landing of persons;

(e)

the carriage of passengers, vehicles, animals and goods by a ferry service maintained by the Authority;

(f)

the use of a quay, wharf, dock, jetty, pier, landing-place, foreshore or other property vested in or under the control of the Authority;

(g)

services rendered or material supplied to, or made use of by, a vessel, body corporate or an individual;

(h)

the use of tugs, firefloats and launches belonging to or maintained by the Authority;

(i)

water supplied by the Authority;

(j)

the towing of, and rendering of assistance to, a vessel

(whether entering or leaving the wharves, docks or piers in the possession of the Authority, or whether within or without the Port);

(k)

the shipping and transhipping of goods or persons; and

(l)

any other matter in respect of which the Authority is empowered to levy charges.

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(2)

The Authority may with the approval of the Minister from time to time alter or vary the charges or scales of charges referred to in subsection (1).

(3)

The Authority may, instead of levying the charges in accordance with the charges or scales of charges prescribed, enter into an agreement on any of the matters specified in subsection (1).

(4)

In relation to any matter in respect of which no charges or scales of charges have been prescribed pursuant to subsection (1), the

Authority may levy any charges it thinks fit.

(5)

The Authority may with the approval of the Minister remit the whole or any portion of the charges leviable under this section:

Provided that the Authority may in its discretion remit the whole or any part of the rates for storage or demurrage.

(6)

The Minister may, in any case where it appears to him expedient, having regard to the liabilities which the Authority has to meet, require the Authority to increase any charges prescribed under subsection (1), and the Authority shall accordingly carry out that requirement.

(7)

The Authority may cause the scale of charges to be printed and may, for the information of the public, exhibit such scales (either in whole or in part) at such places as the Authority deems fit.

(8)

Any charges or scales of charges prescribed shall be published in the Gazette.

Submission of memorandum for any change in existing structure of charges