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Power to Public Works Commissioners to transfer maintenance of piers on estuary of Shannon.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
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2. (1.) The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (herein-after referred to as “the Commissioners of Works”) shall have power from time to time upon such conditions as, with the consent of the Treasury, they may think fit, and subject to the provisions of this Act,
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(b.) By order to direct that any one or more of the said piers shall become the public property of the county, or of the urban or rural sanitary district within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, in which such pier or piers is or are situate, and that the maintenance of such pier or piers shall be committed to the grand jury of the said county, or to the sanitary authority of the said urban or rural sanitary district, or to any properly constituted harbour authority within the meaning of this Act, as the case may be; provided the said county, sanitary, or harbour authority consent to accept the same upon the terms herein-after mentioned.
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(2.) From the date of any such order as aforesaid taking effect in manner herein-after mentioned, or any later date specified in that behalf in such order, and subject to the terms of the order and the provisions of this Act, all property of every description, and all powers, rights, and duties of the Commissioners of Works in relation to any one or more of the said piers, whereof the maintenance is committed by such order to the local authority, harbour authority, or trustees therein in that behalf mentioned, (which said local authority, harbour authority, or trustees is or are in this Act referred to as a “pier authority”) shall cease to be vested in, and to be exercised and performed by, and to attach to the Commissioners of Works, and shall devolve upon such pier authority.
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