BAHAMAS AND LEEWARD ISLANDS LIGHT DUES

Whereas by section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, of the United Kingdom it is provided that where any lighthouse, buoy or beacon has been erected or placed on or near the coasts of any British possession by or with the consent of the Legislature of that possession Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix such dues (in that Act referred to as colonial light dues) to be paid in respect of that lighthouse, buoy or beacon by the owner or master of every ship which passes the same and derives benefit therefrom as Her Majesty may deem reasonable and may by like Order increase, diminish or repeal such dues, and those dues shall from the time mentioned in the Order be leviable throughout Her Majesty’s dominions and further that colonial light dues shall not be levied in any British possession unless the Legislature of that possession has by address to the Crown or by Act or Ordinance duly passed signified its opinion that the dues ought to be levied :

And whereas the lighthouses and buoy specified in the First Schedule hereto have been erected or placed on or near the coasts of the Bahamas and the Leeward Islands by or with the consent of the Legislatures of those possessions :

And whereas His Majesty, in pursuance of the powers in that behalf vested in Him by the said section and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, has been pleased to fix the dues to be paid in respect of the lighthouses and buoy specified in the first part of the said Schedule by the owner or master of every ship at one penny per ton of her register tonnage for every occasion after the 1st day of April, 1932, on which such ship passes and derives benefit from any of the said lighthouses or the said buoy :

And whereas His Majesty has been further pleased to fix the dues to be paid in respect of the lighthouse specified in the second part of the said Schedule by the owner or master of every ship at a half-penny per ton of her register tonnage for every occasion after the 1st day of April, 1932, on which such ship passes and derives benefit from the said lighthouse :

Be it enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the State Council thereof, as follows : –

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bahamas and Leeward Islands Light Dues Ordinance.

2. The opinion of the Legislature is hereby signified that on all ships, other than ships belonging to Her Majesty or to the Government of Ceylon, which before arriving or touching at any port or place in Ceylon have passed and derived benefit from any of the lighthouses or the buoy enumerated in the First Schedule, there shall be levied the light dues fixed by His Majesty by Order in Council dated the 17th day of December, 1931, and set out in the Second Schedule, or such other charges as may hereafter be fixed in like manner, and that the dues shall be levied in accordance with the provisions of any Order of Her Majesty in Council for the time being in force in that behalf.