Article 6 Expenses of port health authorities

Any contribution or any part of a contribution which, by virtue of the Act or this order, becomes payable by the council of a district as from 1st April 1974 shall be special expenses chargeable only on so much of the district as comprises the area or, as the case may be, any part of the area on which such contribution is chargeable immediately before that date.

In this paragraph, “contribution” means the expenses or the proportion of the expenses of a port health authority payable under the provisions of any of the port health orders immediately before 1st April 1974 by the council of a county borough or county district.

The provisions of paragraph (1) above shall have effect in relation to any district as if made by a resolution of the council of the district under section 147(3) of the Act, and may be varied or revoked accordingly.