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General powers of the Board.
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7.—(1) For the purposes of the execution of the Liffey undertaking, the performance by the Board of the obligations imposed on it by the Scheduled Agreement, the generation and transmission of electricity by the Board under this Act, and the construction of works by the Board under this Act, or for any one or more of those purposes, the Board may do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—
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(a) impound, hold up, divert, take, and use the waters of the River Liffey above Ballymore Bridge and any river or stream tributary to, and any lake, pond, or canal on or connected with, the River Liffey above the said bridge;
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(b) embank, dam, dredge, deepen, widen, straighten, divert, and otherwise alter the River Liffey above Ballymore Bridge or any river or stream tributary to the River Liffey above the said bridge;
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(c) embank, dam, dredge, alter the level of, and otherwise affect any lake, pond or other water on or connected (directly or indirectly) with the River Liffey above Ballymore Bridge;
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(d) remove, or alter, repair, construct, and maintain such sluices, weirs, dams, embankments, and other works (whether above or below Ballymore Bridge) as may, in the opinion of the Board, be necessary for or incidental to the doing of any of the things mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs of this sub-section;
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(e) construct and maintain generating stations, powerhouses, transformer stations, and other stations and places for generating, transforming, storing, or otherwise dealing with electricity generated under this Act;
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(f) purchase, hire, or otherwise provide, and maintain machinery, plant, and equipment for all generating stations, power houses, transformer stations, and other stations and places constructed under the next preceding paragraph of this sub-section;
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(g) close, divert, remove, or submerge any public or private street, road, way or bridge;
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(h) enter on any lands or premises for the purposes of doing thereon or on any other lands or premises all or any of the things which the Board is by this sub-section authorised to do or making thereon or on any other lands or premises any inquiry, investigation, or examination preliminary or incidental to the doing of any such thing;
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(i) do any act or thing which may be necessary for or incidental to the doing of anything which the Board is by this sub-section authorised to do.
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(2) The Board may contract with any person for the execution of all or any of the works which the Board is authorised by this section to undertake and execute, and for that purpose the Board may enter into contracts.
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(3) Whenever the Board enters under this section into any contract for the execution of any of the works which the Board is authorised by this section to execute, the Board may by such contract confer on the contractor the right to do such of the said works which the Board is authorised by the first sub-section of this section to do as the Board shall think proper and shall specify in such contract, and thereupon such contractor shall have the right (concurrently with the Board) to do all or any of the things so specified as if such right were conferred on him by this Act, but so far as and no further than is necessary for the due execution of such contract.
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