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Clause 75, page 55, line 42, leave out subsection (4) and insert—
("(4) Any byelaw made under this section shall be of no effect if and in so far as it is inconsistent with any byelaw made by any dock undertakers or by any person authorised by any enactment or statutory order to construct or operate a pier.")
§ LORD BRECONMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with Commons Amendment No. 35. This clause enables local authorities to make by-laws for regulating pleasure boats. Subsection (4) recognises that by-laws made by clock undertakers may overlap or conflict with by-laws made by a local authority under these powers, and accordingly provides that in those cases the dock undertakers' by-laws shall prevail. Many statutory pier authorities, however, also have powers to make by-laws regulating the navigation of vessels in the waters surrounding piers. The purpose of this Amendment is to avoid any overlap or clash with by-laws made by those authorities, and to give them the same precedence over local authorities' by-laws as the clause already gives to the by-laws of dock undertakers. I beg to move.
§ Moved, that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Brecon.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.