9.30 p.m.

I beg to move, in page 41, line 43, to leave out "a harbour operation" and to insert: harbour opt rations of a particular description". Although this Amendment, and other Amendments, are of a drafting nature, I should explain them, as they are not quite straightforward. They seek to improve the wording of Clause 37(1)(b) so as to clarify the type of information the Council may demand from people engaged in harbour operations. As the subsection is at present worded, it might be argued that a person could only be required to supply information about the operations he was engaged on at the time when he received notice in writing from the Council. The new wording would make it quite clear that the Council could demand information about other harbour operations which that person was in the habit of carrying on at other times.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In page 42, line 2, leave out "that operation" and insert "harbour operations of that description carried out by him at that harbour".—[Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett.]