Harbours Act 2015

General policy power of direction in relation to transferred company

27. (1) A local authority chief executive may, after consultation with a transferred company, give a direction in writing to the transferred company, requiring it to comply with policy decisions of a general kind in relation to—

(a) such policies of the local authority concerned as are specified in the direction, or

(b) matters affecting the functions of the transferred company.

(2) A transferred company shall comply with a direction given to it under this section.

(3) A local authority chief executive may stipulate, in consultation with a transferred company, financial or other targets to be achieved by a transferred company. In stipulating such targets the local authority chief executive shall have due regard to any direction it has given to the transferred company concerned under subsection (1).

(4) Subsections (1) and (3) shall not be construed as enabling a local authority or a local authority chief executive to exercise any power or control in relation to the performance in particular circumstances by a transferred company of a function conferred on it by or under this Act or the Act of 1996.