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Article 22 Other commercial activities

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(1)

The Commissioners may, in addition to any other powers conferred on the Commissioners and provided that it is conducive to the improvement, maintenance, operation or management of the harbour undertaking in an efficient and economical manner—

(a)

carry on at any place a trade or business of any kind including a trade or business carried on in conjunction with another person;

(b)

form, invest in and promote, or join with another person in forming, investing in and promoting, a company for either or both of the following—

(i)

subject to article 23 (power to delegate functions), carrying on any part of the harbour undertaking, or

(ii)

carrying on at any place a trade or business of any kind.

(2)

Except as is otherwise provided by any enactment, the powers of a company referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) may include powers to do anything necessary or expedient for the purposes of the objects mentioned in that paragraph or for purposes incidental to those purposes, notwithstanding that the Commissioners would not themselves have the power to do that thing.