Article 40 Recovery of charges

In addition to any other remedy given by this Order and by the Act of 1847 as incorporated with the Whitehaven Town and Harbour Acts and Orders 1708 to 1991 (and, in a case where the master of a vessel in respect of which a charge is payable to the Commissioners refuses or neglects to pay the same or any part thereof, whether or not the Commissioners' collector has gone on board the vessel and demanded the charge pursuant to section 44 of that Act), the Commissioners may recover any dues, rates, rents or other charges payable to them as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.