HC Deb 18 December 1969 vol 793 cc1691-2

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make, for Great Britain, further provision with respect to the improvement, maintenance and management of harbours and the carrying on of harbour operations, it is expedient to authorize—

(1) the imposition of charges to corporation tax by provisions relating to the transfer of harbours to a National Ports Authority.

(2) any incidental or consequential charges to any tax which may arise from any provision made by that Act with respect to the disposal of, or of income arising from, sums paid under that Act (by way of compensation, interest on compensation or otherwise) in connection with the transfer to that Authority of any harbour;

(3) the payment into the Consolidated Fund or the National Loans Fund of any sums required to be so paid by or in consequence of that Act.—[Mr. Malley.]