(b) goods loaded on ships. unloaded from ships or transhipped by water within the limits of a public port or stored in, or moved across, a public port facility; and
(c) any service provided by the Minister, or any right or privilege conferred by the Minister, in respect of the operation of a public port or public port facility.
(2) The Minister may fix the interest rate to be charged on overdue fees.
(3) The fees and the interest rate may be made binding on Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province.
(4) The fees fixed under paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) do not apply in respect of a Canadian warship or naval auxiliary ship, a ship of a visiting force within the meaning of the Visiting Forces Act or any other ship while it is under the command of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
57. The Minister may enter into agreements to provide services, rights or privileges, as the Minister considers appropriate, at a public port or public port facility and may agree by contract to accept fees other than those fixed under subsection 56(1) for those services, rights and privileges.
Harbour Masters and Wharfingers
58. (1) The Minister may appoint as a harbour master or wharfinger for all or part of a public port or public port facility any person who, in the Minister's opinion, is qualified and assign responsibilities to that person.
(2) The power of the Minister and the appointments made by the Minister under subsection (1) cease six years after the coming into force of this section.
(3) The Minister may fix the remuneration to be paid to a harbour master or wharfinger and the amounts of the remuneration may, notwithstanding anything in the Financial Administration Act, be paid out of the fees collected in respect of public ports and public port facilities.
(4) An appointment as a harbour master or wharfinger made by the Minister under subsection 11(2) of the Public Harbours and Ports Facilities Act, and the remuneration determined by the Governor in Council under subsection 11(3) of that Act in respect of that appointment, continue in effect as though they had been made and fixed under this section.
Agreements
59. The Minister may enter into agreements with any person or body in respect of the management or operation of a public port or public port facility, or a group of them.
Federal Real Property
60. (1) Notwithstanding the Federal Real Property Act, the Minister may lease any federal real property that forms, or formed, part of a public port or public port facility or grant a licence in respect of the property, for twenty years or for a longer period with the approval of the Governor in Council.
(2) A lease or licence may be effected by any instrument by which real property may be leased or a licence may be granted by a private person under the laws in force in the province in which the property is situated.
61. (1) The Minister may enter into agreements in respect of (a) the disposal of all or part of the federal real property that formed part of a public port or public port facility by sale or any other means; and
(b) the transfer of the administration of all or part of the federal real property that formed part of a public port or public port facility to Her Majesty in right of a province.
(2) The agreements may include
(a) provisions for the performance and enforcement of obligations under the agreements; and
