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Rates on Passengers not to be levied at the Harbour of Oban.
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4. With respect to The Oban Pier and Harbour Order, 1864, set out in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and notwithstanding anything contrary to this Enactment contained in the said Order or the Schedule thereto annexed, or the Acts therein recited, or this Act, be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Undertakers under the said Order to demand or receive any Rates or Charges on or in respect of any Passenger, Reaper, or other Person landing from or embarking in any Vessel at the existing Pier and Works, or the proposed Breastwork and Sea Wall and other Works at the Harbour of Oban mentioned in the said Order, and the said Pier, Breastwork, Sea Wall, and other Works may be used free from Rates and Charges by all Passengers, Reapers, and other Persons landing from or embarking in any Vessel at the said Harbour.
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The Limits of this Order shall be the Area within a Portion of a Circle of Two hundred and fifty Yards Radius drawn seawards from the Head of the existing Pier taken as a Centre: Provided that nothing contained in this Order or in the Acts herein recited shall prevent the Appointment of a Harbour Master for the Bay of Oban under the Authority of any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order hereafter to be passed with Powers and Jurisdiction extending over the whole of the said Bay, including the Area within the Limits above referred to, but not any Portion of the Works of the Undertakers, and on the Appointment of such Harbour Master the Powers and Authorities conferred on or exercisable by any Harbour Master to be appointed under the Authority of this Order or the Acts herein recited shall cease and determine, except as regards the said Works of the Undertakers.
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The Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Sections of “The General Pier and Harbours Act, 1861, Amendment Act,” shall apply to the said Order and to the Undertakers under the same, as if the said Undertakers were a Company incorporated by the said Order for the Purposes of the Undertaking, and the Word “ Company ” in the said Sections shall mean the said Undertakers: Provided that the clear annual Profits on the Average of Three Years referred to in the said Fourteenth Section shall, with regard to the said Order and for the Purposes specified in the said Sections, be held to be a Sum not exceeding One thousand Pounds.
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