Port of London Act 1908

Port of London Act 1908

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to provide for the improvement and better administration of the Port of London, and for purposes incidental thereto.
Citation	8 Edw. 7. c. 68
Dates
Royal assent	21 December 1908
Repealed	1968
Other legislation
Repealed by	Port of London Act 1968
Status: Repealed

The Port of London Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 68) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established the Port of London Authority and regulated corporate governance at the Port of London.^[1] It merged numerous inefficient and overlapping private companies and gave unified supervision to Britain's most important port. That enabled London to compete more effectively with Hamburg and Rotterdam. David Lloyd George, the President of the Board of Trade, was the major sponsor for the Liberal Party.^[2]

Sections 1(1) to (6) stated there shall be a port authority with ten appointed members by the Board of Trade and London County Council.

Section 1(7) went on to say the following:

With a view to providing for the representation of labour on the Port Authority, one of the members of the Port Authority appointed by the Board of Trade shall be appointed by the Board after consultation with such organisations representative of labour as the Board think best qualified to advise them upon the matter, and one of the members of the Port Authority appointed by the London County Council shall be appointed by the council after consultation with such organisations representative of labour as the council think best qualified to advise them upon the matter.

• UK labour law
• UK company law