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CORPORATION OF ST.GEORGE’S (DUES ON AIR FREIGHT) ACT 1952

1952 : 31

[This Act was repealed by 2010 : 45 effective 1 April 2011 and revived by 2013 : 39 effective 1 April 2014]

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

Interpretation

1 In this Act “the Civil Airport” means the civil airport in St. George’s Parish, comprising that part of Kindley Air Force Base designated by the Government of the United States of America for the use of the Government of Bermuda as a civil airport together with any other land owned or leased by the Government of Bermuda adjacent thereto and used for the purposes of civil aviation.

2. Corporation may levy and collect dues on goods imported or exported at Civil Air Terminal

(1) The Corporation of St. George’s may levy and collect dues on all goods imported by aircraft into the Civil Airport or exported by aircraft therefrom; and those provisions of the Municipalities Act 1923 [title 4 item 1], which relate to the levying and collecting of wharfage on goods imported into and exported from the Port of St. George’s, shall have effect in relation to the levying and collection of dues on goods imported into or exported from the Civil Airport as though such dues were wharfage authorized to be levied or collected under that Act.

Exemptions

2A For the avoidance of doubt, the goods listed in the Third Schedule to the Municipalities Act 1923 are exempt from dues collected under section 2. [Section 2A inserted by 2013 : 39 s. 22 effective 1 April 2014]

CORPORATION OF ST.GEORGE’S (DUES ON AIR FREIGHT) ACT 1952

Modified effect of Civil Airports Act 1949

3 The Civil Airports Act 1949 shall have effect—

(a) as though section 4(1)(b) of that Act extended so as to require the Minister responsible for civil aviation to make arrangements for the systematic coordination of those functions of the Corporation of St. George’s falling to be exercised at the Civil Airport in pursuance of this Act; and

(b) as though section 5(1)(c) of that Act extended so as to relate to the allotment by the Minister responsible for civil aviation of areas, buildings or parts of buildings at the Civil Airport for the use of the Corporation of St. George’s; and

(c) so that nothing in section 6 of that Act shall derogate from or affect any power conferred upon the Corporation of St. George’s by this Act to levy and collect dues on goods imported into, or exported from, the Civil Airport. [Section 3 paragraphs (a) and (b) amended by BR 5/2011 para.5 effective 25 February 2011]

4 [repealed by 1977 : 17]

[Assent Date: 20 May 1952]

[Amended by:

1970 304

1970 520

1971 113

1972 157

1973 108

1974 : 116

1975 : 74

1976 : 56

1977 : 17 BR 5 / 2011

2010 : 45

2013 : 39]