Article 17 Payment of charges

The several charges which the Commissioners are for the time being authorised to demand, take and recover in respect of vessels and goods under any enactment shall be payable before the removal from the port of any vessel or goods in respect of which they are payable and may be demanded, taken or recovered by such person, at such places and at such times as the Commissioners may from time to time appoint and under such regulations as they may from time to time make.

Charges payable to the Commissioners in relation to a vessel or goods shall be so payable by the owner of the vessel or goods.

Where charges payable to the Commissioners may be recovered by them from more than one person, the said persons shall be jointly and severally liable.