
1 
In subsection (1) of section seven of the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937 (which provides that in certain circumstances the Secretary of State may authorise a local or harbour authority to undertake, subject to the Second Schedule to the said Act, certain operations in connection with a marine work) for the words " five thousand pounds " there shall be substituted the words " twenty-five thousand pounds ".
2 
This Act may be cited as the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1953, and this Act and the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act, 1937, may be cited together as the Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Acts, 1937 and 1953.