Section 13 Power to lease dues.

A local authority, in whom any marine work to which this Part of this Act applies is vested, may, on such terms and conditions as they may think fit, grant a lease for any period not exceeding five years of the dues exigible in respect of the marine work, and the lessee under any such lease shall have the like right to levy and collect the dues as the local authority would have had if such lease had not been granted.