Dundalk Harbour and Port Act, 1925

If Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company, Ltd., use their quay otherwise than for vessels belonging to or chartered by them, Commissioners may demand quayage rates for the same.

49.—If after the Commissioners shall have purchased all the quays which they are by this Act authorised to purchase by compulsion, the Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company Limited shall use the quay or wharf which now is occupied and owned by the said Company in their steam packet business, as a public quay, or otherwise than for the use and accommodation of steam vessels plying to the said port belonging to or chartered or used by the said Company, the said Company shall pay by way of penalty to the Commissioners in respect of such use the quayage rates by this Act made payable for the like use of the quays of the Commissioners: Provided that in case the said quay shall cease to be used as a steam packet quay, and shall become vested in any person or corporation other than the Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company Limited or the Commissioners, then it shall not be lawful for the Commissioners to demand or receive any quayage rates upon or in respect of the said quay.