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Commissioners may provide radio navigation systems.
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3.—(1) Subject to subsection (3), the Commissioners shall have, and be deemed always to have had, in relation to maritime navigation, power to—
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(a) operate without limit as to range a radio navigation system,
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(b) erect or place any radio navigation system, with all requisite works, roads and appurtenances,
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(c) maintain, repair, improve, alter, remove or vary the character of any radio navigation system, and
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(d) purchase or dispose of any land which may be necessary for the exercise of their powers under this subsection.
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(2) The Commissioners shall have, and be deemed always to have had, all such incidental, supplemental, ancillary and consequential powers as, in the opinion of the Commissioners, are necessary or expedient for the purpose of the exercise by them of the powers aforesaid.
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(3) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to the radio navigation system known as LORAN C (within the meaning of the international agreement concerning the establishment and operation of the civil LORAN C navigation system in North West Europe and the North Atlantic done at Oslo on the 6th day of August, 1992), until such date as the Minister may appoint by order, subject to any restrictions or conditions as the Minister may specify in the order.
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(4) Where an order is proposed to be made under subsection (3) of this section, a draft of the order shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the order shall not be made unless a resolution approving of the draft is passed by each such House.
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(5) If, because of any or all of its provisions, subsections (1) and (2) of this section would, but for the provisions of this subsection, conflict with the constitutional rights of any person, the provisions of this section shall be subject to such limitations as are necessary to secure that they do not so conflict, but shall otherwise be of full force and effect.
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