Article 10 Penalty for evading payment of charges

If the owner of any vessel or goods or any other person at any time eludes or attempts to elude or evade payment of, or wrongly refuses to pay, any charges payable by him to the Council at the time when they become due and payable, he shall be liable to pay to the Council a sum equal to three times the amount of such charges, which sum shall be a debt due to the Council and shall be recoverable by the Council in the same manner as penalties imposed by the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847 may be recovered, or by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.