S.I. No. 274/1947 - Harbours Act, 1946 (Abolition of Cocket and Entry Tax At Cork Harbour) Order, 1947.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 274.

HARBOURS ACT, 1946 (ABOLITION OF COCKET AND ENTRY TAX AT CORK HARBOUR) ORDER, 1947.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 183 of the Harbours Act, 1946 (No. 9 of 1946), hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Harbours Act, 1946 (Abolition of Cocket and Entry Tax at Cork Harbour) Order, 1947.

2. On and from the 1st day of January, 1948, the rates and duties, chargeable under the British statute passed in the year 1814 and entitled an Act to raise a fund for defraying the charge of commercial improvements within the city and port of Cork in Ireland, shall cease to be charged, and any obligations of the Commercial Buildings Company of Cork (whether acquired under charter, or by statute or otherwise) whereof the said rates and duties or any part thereof were in consideration shall cease.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of August, 1947.

SEAN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.