No. 200/1942:

HARBOUR RATES (KINSALE PORT AND HARBOUR) ORDER, 1942.

HARBOUR RATES (KINSALE PORT AND HARBOUR) ORDER, 1942.

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 the Commissioners of the Port and Harbour of Kinsale 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 the port and harbour of Kinsale increasing the maximum rates in respect of fishing vessels or boats using the said port and harbour :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce has pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of section 5 of the said Act, given notice dated the 24th day of April, 1942, of his proposal to make such order to the said Commissioners, and has given the directions mentioned in that subsection in respect of the notice required thereby to be published by the said Commissioners :

AND WHEREAS the said Commissioners have duly published such notice, and such notice has contained the directions mentioned in subsection (2) of section 5 of the said Act as regards making objections and representations to the Minister for Industry and Commerce in respect of such proposed order :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Kinsale Port and Harbour) Order, 1942, and shall be construed as one with the Kinsale Harbour Orders, 1870 to 1892.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 26th day of May, 1942.

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

3.—The Commissioners of the Port and Harbour of Kinsale may, for the use of the port and harbour of Kinsale by fishing vessels or boats, demand and take, in lieu of the sums now lawfully chargeable, any sums not exceeding the rates specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MAXIMUM TONNAGE RATES ON FISHING VESSELS OR BOATS USING OR ENTERING THE PORT AND HARBOUR OF KINSALE.

For every vessel engaged in fishing using the harbour, as a composition in full of tonnage duty for each year, payable in advance :

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 22nd day of May, 1942.

(Signed) R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.