Kenya Ports Authority Act, 1978 🇰🇪

Kenya

Preface

Part I – PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION

1. Short title

2. Interpretation and application

Part II – ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUTHORITY

3. Establishment and incorporation of the Kenya Ports Authority

Part III – MANAGEMENT OF THE AUTHORITY

4. Board of Directors

5. Managing Director

6. Remuneration of Directors of the Board

7. Further provision as to the Board

Part IV – FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY, ETC.

8. General duty of the Board

9. Powers of Managing Director

10. Powers of the Board

11. Powers of the Minister

12. Powers of the Authority as a statutory body

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Part V – FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

18. Principles of operation

19. Borrowing powers

Part VI – ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS

20. Annual accounts

21. Annual report and financial year

Part VII – RESPONSIBILITY AS A WAREHOUSEMAN

22. Liability for loss of goods, etc.

23. Limitation of liability for loss, etc., of goods deposited in cloakroom

Part VIII – OPERATION OF THE AUTHORITY

24. Authority may determine conditions for handling and warehousing of goods

25. Description, etc., of goods to be delivered

26. Goods may be sold to pay rates, etc.

27. Unclaimed goods in possession of the Authority

28. Indemnity where goods claimed by two persons, etc.

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Part IX – CONTROL OF PORTS

34. Port limits

35. Power to amend the Second Schedule

36. Compulsory pilotage ports

37. Passengers, etc., to be embarked, etc., only at a port

38. Master to supply information, etc.

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Part X – PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFENCES

48. Major offences

49. Minor offences

50. False returns

51. Unlawfully transporting dangerous goods

52. Offences by master of vessel

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Part XI – MISCELLANEOUS

58. Appointment of staff

59. Property of the Authority in custody of employee, etc.

60. Regulations relating to staff

61. Delegation and signification

62. Compensation

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Part XII – APPLICATION OF LAWS OF THE COMMUNITY, TRANSITIONAL, SAVING, ETC.

73. Application of Community laws

74. Transitional and savings

75. Contracts, etc., on behalf of Authority before commencement of this Act

FIRST SCHEDULE

1. Tenure of office

2. Vacation of office

3. Deputies

4. Meetings

5. Special meetings

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SECOND SCHEDULE

Part I

Part II

Part III

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Kenya Ports Authority Act, 1978

Act 2 of 1978

Assented to on 11 January 1978
Commenced on 20 January 1978
[This is the version of this document from 20 January 1978.]

An Act of Parliament to provide for the establishment of an Authority to be known as the Kenya Ports Authority, for the transfer to the Authority of the undertakings, within Kenya, of the East African Harbours Corporation, for the functions of the Authority and for purposes connected therewith.

Part I – PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Kenya Ports Authority Act.

2. Interpretation and application

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Kenya Ports Authority Act, 1978

Act 2 of 1978

Part I – PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION

1. Short title

2. Interpretation and application

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