Dublin Port and Docks (Bridges) Act, 1929

PART IV.—BRIDGES AND QUAY WALLS.

Rebuilding, repair and maintenance of Bridges and Quay Walls to be defrayed in future out of the Bridge Rate.

34.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act the costs charges and expenses of rebuilding reconstructing altering improving repairing and maintaining the Quay Walls of the River Liffey in the Port of Dublin situate and lying between Butt Bridge and Rory O'More Bridge and the rebuilding reconstructing altering improving repairing and maintaining of the several Bridges under the jurisdiction of the Board (including Butt Bridge and the Transporter Bridge) shall be solely chargeable to and defrayed out of the Bridge Rate leviable under this Act:

Provided that except with the written consent of the Corporation and of the County Council the sum raisable by means of the Bridge Rate in respect of the rebuilding reconstruction altering or improving the several Bridges under the jurisdiction of the Board shall not exceed £6,000 in any one year and shall not exceed £20,000 in any period of five years but so that nothing contained in this proviso shall operate to limit or affect the powers conferred upon the Board by this Act in reference to the Works No. 1 and No. 2 by this Act authorised or their powers under this Act of providing for the costs charges and expenses of such works.

(2) One moiety of the expenses of the working of the Transporter Bridge and of the payment of the officers and workmen necessary for that purpose shall be defrayed out of the Bridge Rate and the other moiety of such expenses together with any other expenses which under this Act are directed to be paid by the Board out of the Port Fund shall be paid by the Board out of the Port Fund as though the said expenses and payments were expressly provided for in section 225 of the Act of 1869:

Provided always that any sums which may from time to time be contributed out of any public fund (other than the Bridge Rate) towards the expenses and payments aforesaid shall be applied in discharge of an equivalent amount of the sums to be defrayed out of the Bridge Rate under this sub-section and the Bridge Rate shall be exonerated therefrom accordingly.

(3) Every annual demand to be furnished by the Board to the Corporation and the County Council respectively for the Bridge Rate shall include such costs charges and expenses properly chargeable in and to the financial year to which each such demand relates.