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Port Management Act 1995
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44E Dredging
Subject to obtaining any permit, consent or other authority required by or under any other Act, the port manager of a local port may, in carrying out its functions—
(a) alter, dredge, cleanse, scour, straighten and improve the bed and channel of any river or sea-bed in port waters;
(b) reduce or remove any banks or shoals within any such river or sea-bed;
(c) abate and remove impediments, obstructions and nuisances in, or on the banks and shores of, any such river or sea-bed that are injurious to the river or sea-bed or that obstruct, or that may tend to obstruct, navigation.
S. 44F inserted by No. 85/2003 s. 11.