The Port of Bristol Harbour Revision Order 1993

Byelaws etc.

5.—(1) On and from the operative date any byelaw, regulation, licence or consent made, issued or granted by the Council in relation to the designated harbour and in force immediately before that date shall, notwithstanding the making of this Order, continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or granted by the Company.

(2) Subsections (3) to (8) and (11) of section 236 and section 238 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (which relate to the procedure for making, and evidence of, byelaws) shall apply to any byelaws made by the Company under any statutory power exercisable by the Company by virtue of this Order as if the Company were a local authority and the secretary of the Company were a proper officer of a local authority; but, subject to paragraph (3) below, the Secretary of State may confirm the byelaws with such modifications as he thinks fit.

(3) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make a modification which appears to him to be substantial, he shall inform the Company and require it to take any steps he considers necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification, and shall not confirm the byelaws until such period has elapsed as he thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Company and by other persons who have been informed of it.