Section 7: When an owner shall be entitled to a licence for the continuance of the pier.

If the owner of a pier existing at the commencement of this Act applies for a licence for the continuance of a pier and establishes a legal or equitable right to the continuance of the pier he shall be entitled to receive from the Minister a licence which shall preserve to him such legal or equitable rights with regard to the use and maintenance of the pier and the re-erection and alteration and extension thereof as he shall have acquired before the commencement of this Act.