Alexander, you have failed to read or understand the relevant posts that I have pointed you to or pretty much anything else that has been written by me or other members of the DPPT in this regard.
The consultation on the DHB proposals is finished.
The Minister has rejected the DHB privatisation as put forward and amended by the DHB.
The 1991 Ports Act is still the governing legislation and so the DHB may choose to put forward a new proposal at any time.
The Public Bodies Act also has clauses with specific regard to the Port of Dover and the DHB.
The 1964 Harbours Act also give the Secretary of State significant and wide ranging powers.
The Secretary of State has discretion as to whether the Government adopts the DPPT proposals or not and whether to use his powers under the 1964 Harbours Act, the 1991 Ports Act or the 2011 Public Bodies Act to implement all or part of them.
If you think that the future of the port is settled once and for all by the Minister's decision on the previous DHB proposals in December last year, then you are much mistaken. Equally, if you believe that the decision on the DHB proposals for private equity sale precludes the continuance of a process necessary to deliver the Government's aims and objectives with regard to Treasury income and community benefit, then you are sadly out of touch with reality.
http://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/latest-on-the-port?p=35 refer to post 688. Still applies to the real situation today.
So sue me.
