Port of London Act 1908

The Port of London Act 1908 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established the Port of [London Authority] and regulated corporate governance at the Port of London. 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.

Contents

Sections 1 to stated there shall be a port authority with ten appointed members by the Board of Trade and London County Council.
Section 1 went on to say the following:

Subsequent developments

The whole act except section 60 of, and the seventh and eighth schedules to, the act was repealed by section 3 of, and the third schedule to, the Port of London (Consolidation) Act 1920.
The whole act was repealed by section 208 of, and schedule 9 to, the Port of London Act 1968.