Article 9 Recovery of charges

In addition to any other remedy given by this Order and by the 1847 Act as incorporated in the Cowes Harbour Acts and Orders 1897 to 2012 the Commissioners may recover any charges payable to them as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction (including in a case where the master of a vessel in respect of which a charge is payable to the Commissioners refuses or neglects to pay the same or any part thereof, whether or not the Commissioners’ collector has gone on board the vessel and demanded the charge pursuant to section 44 (recovery of tonnage rates by distraint of ship and tackle) of the 1847 Act).