Article 32 Confirmation of byelaws
Byelaws made by the Authority under this Order or the 1847 Act shall not come into operation until they have been confirmed by the Ministers.
At least one month before an application for confirmation of byelaws is made by the Authority to the Ministers, notice of the intention to apply for confirmation and of the place at which and times during which a copy of the byelaws shall be open to inspection shall be published as follows—
once in the Edinburgh Gazette, and
once in each of two successive weeks in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the port is situated.
Not later than the first date on which the notice under paragraph (2) is published, the Authority shall send a copy of the notice to the Chief Executive of Angus Council and to the Ministers.
During a period of at least one month before application is made for confirmation of the byelaws, a copy of the byelaws shall be kept by the Authority at the port office and will be available for inspection without payment.
The Authority shall supply a copy of the byelaws or of part of the byelaws to a person who shall apply for it.
During the period of one month after the date of first publication of any notice required by paragraph (2), any person may make in writing to the Ministers any objection to or representation respecting the byelaws to which the notice relates.
Subject to paragraph (8), the Ministers may confirm the byelaws in the form submitted to them, with such modifications as they think fit or may refuse to confirm them.
Where the Ministers propose to make a modification that appears to them to substantially affect the character of the byelaws they shall inform the Authority and require it to take any steps the Ministers consider necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification, and the Ministers shall not make decision under paragraph (7) until such period has elapsed as the Ministers think reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Authority and by other persons who have been informed of it.
A copy of the byelaws when confirmed shall be printed and deposited by the Authority at the port office of the Authority and shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment, and a copy of the byelaws shall on application be furnished to any person on request.