Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1939

Power of the Minister to prescribe fees.

5.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, prescribe by order (in this Act referred to as a fees order) the fees to be charged for surveys made and services rendered under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1933.

(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to fees orders, that is to say:—

(a) a fee may be prescribed by a fees order for a survey or service in respect of which no fee is chargeable under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1933;

(b) where a fee is prescribed by a fees order for a survey or service in respect of which a fee is chargeable under the, said Acts, such fee may be so prescribed either in addition to or in substitution for the said fee chargeable under the said Acts;

(c) no limitation imposed by the said Acts on the amount of the fee which may be prescribed, charged, or made chargeable in respect of any particular survey or service shall apply or have effect in relation to the fee prescribed by a fees order for such survey or service.

(3) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, at any time by order revoke or amend a fees order or an order made under this sub-section.

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