S.I. No. 59/1956:

HARBOUR RATES (ROSSLARE HARBOUR) ORDER, 1956.

HARBOUR RATES (ROSSLARE HARBOUR) ORDER, 1956.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if and whenever he thinks fit on the application of the harbour authority for any harbour, by order (in the said Act referred to as a harbour rates order) fix all or any of the rates, or, where he so thinks fit, the maximum rates to be charged by the harbour authority of such harbour, and may for that purpose revoke, modify, alter or extend by such order any statutory or other provision fixing, restricting, or otherwise regulating the rates or the maximum or minimum rates chargeable by such harbour authority :

AND WHEREAS Coras Iompair Eireann (hereinafter referred to as the Company), being the harbour authority for Rosslare Harbour, have applied pursuant to section 4 of the said Act to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for a harbour rates order in respect of Rosslare Harbour fixing certain maximum rates to be charged by the Company :

AND WHEREAS the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 5 of the said Act have been complied with :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), hereby order as follows :

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Rosslare Harbour) Order, 1956.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the third day of April, 1956.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. In this Order--

" the Act of 1899 " means the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Act, 1899 ;

" the Act of 1900 " means the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Act, 1900.

4. The Second Schedule to the Act of 1899 is hereby amended--

(a) by the deletion, in Part I, of the item relating to waterage money and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following :

(b) by the deletion, in Part II, of the item relating to waterage money and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following :

5. The Third Schedule to the Act of 1899 is hereby amended by the insertion, in the first, second and third columns, of the matter contained in the first, second and third columns, respectively, of the following :

6. The Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1899 is hereby amended by the deletion of the item relating to craneage and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following :

7. The Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1899 is hereby amended by the deletion of Part I and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following :

8.--(1) The Maximum rates chargeable by Coras Iompair Eireann in respect of Rosslare Harbour under the following provisions :--

(a) section 24 of the Act of 1900 and the Second Schedule to the Act of 1899 as amended by Article 4 of this Order,

(b) section 25 of the Act of 1900 and the Third Schedule to the Act of 1899 as amended by Article 5 of this Order,

(c) section 26 of the Act of 1900 and the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1899 as amended by Article 6 of this Order.

(d) section 27 of the Act of 1900 and the Fifth Schedule to the Act of 1899, and

(e) section 28 of the Act of 1900 and the Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1899 as amended by Article 7 of this Order,

shall be increased by one hundred and twenty per cent.

(2) Any fraction of a penny resulting in the calculation of an increase under paragraph (1) of this Article shall--

(a) if such fraction is less than a halfpenny, be reckoned as a halfpenny,

(b) if such fraction is greater than a halfpenny, be reckoned as a penny.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of March, 1956.

(Signed) WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.