S.I. No. 39/1946 - Harbour Rates (Port of Dublin) Order, 1946.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1946. No. 39.

HARBOUR RATES (PORT OF DUBLIN) ORDER, 1946.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1 Short title and commencement.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Port of Dublin) Order, 1946.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 16th day of February, 1946.

2 Definitions.

2. (1) In this Order—

the expression " the Act of 1869 " means the Dublin Port and Docks Act, 1869;

the expression " the Act of 1902 " means the Dublin Port and Docks Act, 1902;

the expression " the Act of 1919 " means the Dublin Port and Docks Act, 1919;

the expression " the Act of 1920 " means the Dublin Port and Docks Act, 1920;

the expression " the Order of 1941 " ' means the Harbour Rates (Port of Dublin) Order, 1941 (S. R. & O., No. 565 of 1941).

(2) This Order shall be construed as one with the Act of 1869 and the Acts amending it.

3 Increase of maximum tonnage rates.

3. In lieu of the maximum tonnage rates now payable to the Board by virtue of section 132 of the Act of 1869, as amended by section 3 of the Act of 1919, section 19 of the Act of 1920 and the Order of 1941, the Board shall be entitled to charge—

(a) on every vessel arriving in the Port of Dublin from a port or place (other than a port or place in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the State) a tonnage rate not exceeding, for every ton of the tonnage of such vessel, the sum of one shilling and eleven pence,

(b) on every vessel arriving in the Port of Dublin from a port or place in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the State (other than a place within the Port of Dublin) a tonnage rate not exceeding, for every ton of the tonnage of such vessel, the sum of one shilling and five pence.

4 Increase of maximum goods rates.

4. Section 40 (which relates to rates in respect of goods) of the Act of 1902 shall have effect as if—

(a) the several rates specified in the Fifth Schedule to the Act of 1902 were increased by an amount equal to 166 2/3 per cent. thereof, and

(b) the following enactments (in so far as they increased the maximum goods rates) had not been enacted, namely—

(i) section 3 of the Act of 1919,

(ii) section 19 of the Act of 1920, and

(iii) the Order of 1941.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of February, 1946.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.