Dundalk Harbour and Port Act, 1925

Inspection of accounts.

71.—(1) All the accounts to be kept under this Act or the said Acts incorporated herewith shall be open to the inspection of the Commissioners and the persons paying rates under this Act from ten o'clock till one o'clock in the daytime; and a full abstract of the accounts shall within three months after the 31st day of December in the year 1925 and in every subsequent year be published in a newspaper or newspapers circulating and published in the urban district of Dundalk.

(2) The Commissioners shall within two months after the 31st day of December in the year 1925 and in every subsequent year send to the Minister for Industry and Commerce a copy of the accounts mentioned in the foregoing sub-section, and section 16 of the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, Amendment Act, 1862 , shall apply to such accounts in the same manner in all respects as it applies to the account mentioned in that section.

(3) If and whenever the Commissioners fail to publish a full abstract of their accounts or to send a copy of their accounts to the Minister for Industry and Commerce in accordance with this section within the period specified in that behalf in this section they shall be liable for every week or part of a week in which after the period aforesaid they so fail to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds recoverable in a court of summary jurisdiction.