Section 2 Application of Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1900.

a harbour authority is liable for any loss or damage occurring outside the harbour of that authority in consequence of directions given by a harbour master in purported exercise of his powers under section 1 above; and

the provisions of the F1section 191 of the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (which limits the liability of harbour, conservancy, dock and canal authorities) would apply so as to limit that liability if the loss or damage in question had occurred in that harbour;