Dublin Port and Docks (Bridges) Act, 1929

Period for completion of works.

8.—The works by this Act authorised shall not be commenced until after the Estimates Designs and Plans referred to in the section of this Act whereof the marginal note is “Procedure as to Estimates” shall have been approved as therein provided and shall be completed as to Work No. 1 within five years after the passing of this Act and as to Work No. 2 within seven years after the passing of this Act or as to Work No. 2 only within such further period not exceeding three years commencing from the expiration of the said period of seven years as may on application being made by the Board to the Minister for Industry and Commerce be prescribed by an order of such Minister and if they are not completed within the said respective periods or extended period as the case may be then on the expiration thereof the powers by this Act granted to the Board in respect of the due execution of the said works shall cease to be exercisable except as to so much thereof as shall then be completed without prejudice however to any powers possessed by the Board under the Act of 1869 the Act of 1898 the Act of 1902 the Act of 1920 or otherwise than under the authority of this Act:

Provided that an order made in pursuance of the powers conferred by this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such order is laid before it annulling such order such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.