Dundalk Harbour and Port Act, 1925

Roads, sewers, watercourse, etc., may be stopped up, diverted or extended, etc.

38.—The Commissioners may cause any public and private roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, watercourses, railway sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires and apparatus as shall be in or near the intended situation of the works by this Act authorised, to be opened, stopped up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with (whether temporarily or permanently) as they shall think necessary or convenient for making and completing or in connection with the said intended works or any of them, or of the works and conveniences connected therewith, or for any of the purposes of their undertaking; so that the Commissioners do, previous to stopping up or otherwise interfering with the same, make and provide in lieu of such roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, watercourses, railway sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires or apparatus, good and sufficient means of passing and repassing or conducting traffic by roads, paths, highways, streets or railway sidings, and good and sufficient means for conveying off the water and sewage from the lands and premises adjoining or near the said works, and good and sufficient alternative wires and other apparatus for such purposes as the wires and apparatus so to be altered or interfered with are accustomed to serve, as convenient in all respects as the public and private roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, watercourses, railway sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires and apparatus so to be opened, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with as aforesaid.

If the Commissioners shall in exercise of the powers given them by this Act require any portion of the plots marked 12a and 14 on the deposited plans and described in the book of reference as “roadway electric wire and pole” and “quay railway sidings roadway mooring posts electric lighting poles and wires water mains” respectively the Commissioners shall at all times hereafter afford T. & J. Connick & Company full and free right of passage over and across the said plots so acquired along all existing roadways thereon to and from the premises of T. & J. Connick & Company to the present or any future Quay Front for all purposes, and the Commissioners shall not obstruct or interfere with the existing roadways unless equal facilities of access are provided for T. & J. Connick & Company.