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title: "Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1953"
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# Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1953

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1953
1953 Chapter 11
An Act to extend the power of the Secretary of State under section seven of the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937, to authorise the undertaking by certain local and harbour authorities of operations in connection with marine works.
[6th May 1953]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

## 1 Amendment of s.7 of Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937. {#section-1}

In subsection (1) of section seven of the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937 (which provides that in certain circumstances the Secretary of State may authorise a local or harbour authority to undertake, subject to the Second Schedule to the said Act, certain operations in connection with a marine work) for the words " five thousand pounds " there shall be substituted the words " twenty-five thousand pounds ".

## 2 Short title and citation. {#section-2}

This Act may be cited as the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1953, and this Act and the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937, may be cited together as the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Acts, 1937 and 1953.