S.I. No. 43/1943 - Harbour Rates (Sligo Port and Harbour) Order, 1943.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1943. No. 43.

HARBOUR RATES (SLIGO PORT AND HARBOUR) ORDER, 1943.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if and whenever he thinks fit on the application of the harbour authority for any harbour, by order (in the said Act referred to as a harbour rates order) fix all or any of the rates, or, where he so thinks fit, the maximum rates to be charged by the harbour authority of such harbour, and may for that purpose revoke, modify, alter or extend by such order any statutory or other provision fixing, restricting, or otherwise regulating the rates or the maximum or minimum rates chargeable by such harbour authority :

AND WHEREAS the Sligo Harbour Commissioners have applied pursuant to section 4 of the said Act to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for a harbour rates order in respect of the Port and Harbour of Sligo fixing certain rates to be charged by the said Commissioners :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce has pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of section 5 of the said Act given notice dated the 7th day of January, 1943, of his proposal to make such order to the said Commissioners, and has given the directions mentioned in that subsection in respect of the notice required thereby to be published by the said Commissioners :

AND WHEREAS the said Commissioners have duly published such notice, and such notice has contained the directions mentioned in subsection (2) of section 5 of the said Act as regards making objections and representations to the Minister for Industry and Commerce in respect of such proposed order :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates), Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say :—

1 Short title and commencement.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Sligo Harbour) Order, 1943.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 22nd day of February, 1943.

2 Application of Interpretation Act, 1937 .

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3 Interpretation.

3. (1) In this Order—

the expression " the Act of 1877 " means the Sligo Harbour Act. 1877 ;

the expression " the Order of 1891 " means the Sligo Harbour Order, 1891 ;

the expression " the Order of 1903 " means the Sligo Harbour Order, 1903 ;

the expression " the Order of 1921 " means the Sligo Port and Harbour (Temporary Increase of Charges) Order, 1921 ;

the expression " the Commissioners " means the Sligo Harbour Commissioners ;

the expression " the Port " means the existing Port and Harbour of Sligo ;

the expression " the harbour master " includes any harbour master and deputy or assistant harbour master for the time being appointed by the Commissioners ;

the word " vessel " means a ship, boat or other vessel of any description ;

the expression " the owner", when used in relation to any vessel, shall extend to and include the owner or charterer of the vessel or his agent or consignee ;

the expression " the master ", when used in relation to any vessel, means the person having the command or charge of the vessel for the time being ;

the expression " Great Britain " includes the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

(2) This Order shall be construed as one with the Act of 1877, the Order of 1891, and the Order of 1903.

4 New tonnage rates.

4. (1) The Commissioners may demand and take, in respect of all vessels entering or using the Port, rates (in this Order referred to as the new tonnage rates) not exceeding those specified in part I of the First Schedule to this Order.

(2) The provisions set out in Part II of the First Schedule to this Order shall apply in respect of the new tonnage rates.

(3) The new tonnage rates in respect of a vessel shall be paid by the owner or master of the vessel.

(4) The harbour master is authorised and required to refuse to allow any vessel to leave the Port until he receives from the collector of the Commissioners a permit showing that all the new tonnage rates due in respect of such vessel have been paid.

(5) The several statutory provisions and powers in respect of rates, charges, tolls, dues, rents and other money and receipts which may be taken or recovered by way of income by the Commissioners shall respectively extend and apply to the new tonnage rates.

(6) All moneys received by the Commissioners from the new tonnage rates shall be applied by them in the same manner and to the same purposes as the harbour duties receivable under section 68 of the Act of 1877 were applicable.

5 Amendment of section 102 of the Act of 1877 and section 16 of the Order of 1903.

5. Section 102 (which relates to rates on goods shipped or unshipped) of the Act of 1877 and section 16 (which provides for the reckoning of fractional units of one penny as one penny in certain cases) of the Order of 1903 shall be construed and have effect as if for the reference therein to the Third Schedule to the Act of 1877 there were substituted a reference to the Second Schedule to this Order.

6 Amendment of section 22 of the Order of 1903.

6. Section 22 (which relates to harbour light dues) of the Order of 1903 shall be construed and have effect as if for the reference therein to one farthing there were substituted a reference to one penny.

7 Charges for use of planks.

7. The Commissioners may charge for each shipping plank provided by them four shillings.

8 Charge for depositing coal on quays.

8. The Commissioners may charge persons depositing coal on any quay belonging to the Commissioners, a sum calculated at the rate of sixpence per ton.

9 Charge for storage of goods in transit sheds.

9. The Commissioners may charge on any goods remaining in any transit sheds belonging to the Commissioners over fourteen days from the date of the final discharge of such goods—

(a) in case goods remain in the said transit sheds for any period (including the said fourteen days) not exceeding six months, a sum calculated at the rate of eightpence per ton,

(b) in case the goods remain in the said transit sheds for any period (including the said fourteen days) exceeding six months, a sum calculated at the rate of one shilling per ton.

10 Saving.

10. Nothing in this Order contained shall prejudice or affect the powers of the Commissioners to levy, collect or recover any rates, dues or sum, of money leviable by or due to the Commissioners at the commencement of this Order, and such rates, dues, and sums of money may be levied, collected and recovered by the Commissioners in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as if this Order had not been made and come into operation.

11 Revocation of portions of the Act of 1877 of the Order of 1891, and the Order of 1921.

11. The following enactments are hereby revoked, that is to say—

(a) section 68 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Act of 1877,

(b) sections 4 and 5 of, and the Schedule to, the Order of 1891,

(c) section 17 and sections 18, 19, 20 and 21 (in so far as they relate to steam vessels other than steam tugs) of the Order of 1903,

(d) the Order of 1921, except in so far as it relates to charges for the sue of mooring buoys.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Maximum tonnage rates chargeable on all vessels entering or using the Port and Harbour of Sligo.

Ref. No.	Tonnage Rates	s.	d.
1.	For every ton of the rateable tonnage of every vessel discharging or loading cargo or passengers in the Port, for each and every voyage made to or from the Port from or to any port or place in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the State.	1	0
2.	For every ton of the rateable tonnage of every vessel discharging or loading passengers in the Port or discharging or loading in the Port such amount of cargo as is not less than half the registered tonnage of such vessel, for each and every voyage made to or from the Port from or to any port or place, other than a port or place in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the State.	2	0
3.	For every ton of the rateable tonnage of every vessel discharging or loading in the Port such amount of cargo as is less than half the registered tonnage of such vessel, for each and every voyage made to or from the Port from or to any port or place other than a port or place in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the State.	1	0

Ref. No.	Tonnage Rates	s.	d.
4.	For every ton of the rateable tonnage of every vessel entering the Port for the purpose of seeking refuge therein or for orders or for a supply of coal or ship's stores and not discharging or loading cargo.	0	2

PART II.

1. The rates mentioned in Part I of this Schedule shall not be chargeable on any boat, smack, cot, gabbard, lighter or wherry which shall not have been registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts and which shall be usually employed in the Port or any part thereof.

2. For the purpose of calculating the rates mentioned in Part I of this Schedule, the rateable tonnage of a vessel shall be taken to be the register tonnage or fifty per cent. of the gross tonnage whichever is the greater.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Maximum rates on goods shipped or unshipped within the Port.

Goods	Rate
		s.	d.
Accumulators and Batteries	per cwt.	0	2
Acid	per cwt.	0	1½
Ale, Beer or Porter	per cwt.	0	1½
Alum	per cwt.	0	1
Ammonia	per cwt.	0	1
Ammonia, Sulphate of	per ton	1	0
Anvils	per cwt.	0	1½
Asbestos Roofing Material	per ton	1	0
Axles	per cwt.	0	2
Bacon	per ton	2	0
Bags, New	per cwt.	0	1½
Bags, Old	per cwt.	0	1
Barytes, Unground	per ton	0	6
Barytes, Ground	per ton	1	0
Beef	per cwt.	0	2
Bicycles, and parts of	per ton	7	6
Biscuits, Ship or Dog	per cwt.	0	1

Goods	Rate
		s.	d.
Biscuits, Fancy	per cwt.	0	1½
Blacking and Boot Polish	per cwt.	0	2
Bleaching Powder	per cwt.	0	2
Blue	per cwt.	0	2
Boats	per foot O. A.	0	3
Bog Ore	per ton	0	6
Boilers	per cwt.	0	1½
Bolts and Nuts and Rivets	per cwt.	0	1
Bones	per ton	0	10
Bone Manure	per ton	1	0
Bone Meal	per ton	1	0
Books and Stationery	per cwt.	0	3
Boots and Shoes	per cwt.	0	3
Bran	per ton	1	3
Brandy	per cwt.	0	3
Brass	per cwt.	0	2
Brass Wire	per cwt.	0	3
Brick, Fire	per ton	0	10
Brick, Building or Common	per ton	0	6
Brooms and Brushes	per cwt.	0	2
Butter	per ton	4	2
Cables, Chain	per cwt.	0	1½
Candles	per cwt.	0	2
Canvas	per cwt.	0	2
Carbide	per cwt.	0	1½
Cardboard	per cwt.	0	2
Carts	each	2	6
Carrigeen Moss	per cwt.	0	1½
Castings	per ton	1	0
Castor Oil	per cwt.	0	1½
Cement	per ton	1	0
Chalk	per ton	0	6
Charcoal	per ton	1	0
Cheese	per cwt.	0	2
Chimney Cans	per cwt.	0	1
Churns, Wood	per cwt.	0	1½
Cider	per cwt.	0	1½
Clay, Fire	per ton	0	10
Clay, Retorts	per cwt.	0	1
Clocks	per cwt.	0	3
Clogs	per cwt.	0	2
Clog Blocks	per cwt.	0	1
Clothes, Old	per cwt.	0	2
Coaches and Chariots	each	7	6
Coal	per ton	0	6
Cocoa and Coffee	per cwt.	0	2
Coke	per ton	0	6
Confectionery	per cwt.	0	2
Copper	per cwt.	0	2
Copper Wire	per cwt.	0	3
Corks	per cwt.	0	2
Corkwood	per cwt.	0	2
Cotton Waste or Wool	per cwt.	0	2½
Cream of Tartar	per cwt.	0	2
Creamery Cans	per cwt.	0	2
Cutlery	per cwt.	0	2½

Goods	Rate
		s.	d.
Cylinders of Gas	per cwt.	0	1½
Dogs	each	1	0
Dog Food	per cwt.	0	2
Drapery Goods—viz. :—
Cotton Manufactured Goods	per cwt.	0	3
Haberdashery
Hosiery
Threads
Linens
Woollens
Carpets
Drugs
Dust, Founders
Dye Stuffs
Dyewoods
Earthenware
Eggs
Electrical Fittings	per cwt.	0	3
Emery, Cloth and Ground	per cwt.	0	1½
Empty Barrels, Boxes, Hampers, etc	per cwt.	0	1½
Fancy Goods	per cwt.	0	2½
Farming Implements	per cwt.	0	2
Feathers	per cwt.	0	3
Feeding Meal	per ton	1	3
Felt	per cwt.	0	1½
Fibre	per ton	1	0
Files	per cwt.	0	2
Fish, Dry	per cwt.	0	1
Fish, Fresh	per cwt.	0	1½
Flax, Hemp or Tow	per cwt.	0	1½
Flour	per ton	1	3
Flower Roots	per cwt.	0	1½
Flue Linings	per cwt.	0	1½
Fowl	per cwt.	0	3
Freestone	per ton	0	6
Fruit, Fresh	per ton	3	4
Fruit, Dry or Canned	per ton	3	4
Furniture	per cwt.	0	2½
Furniture, Old	per cwt.	0	2
Furniture Vans	each	2	6
Furniture in Vans, including weight of Van	per cwt.	0	2
Gigs and Cars	each	5	0
Gin	per cwt.	0	2½
Glass and Glassware	per cwt.	0	2
Glue	per cwt.	0	1½
Glycerine	per cwt.	0	2
Grease	per cwt.	0	1½
Grindstones	per cwt.	0	1½
Groceries and Canned Goods, including Caraway Seeds	per cwt.	0	2
Guano	per ton	1	0
Gum	per cwt.	0	1½
Gunpowder	per cwt.	0	3
Guns	per cwt.	0	3
Gypsum	per ton	0	6
Hair	per cwt.	0	3

Goods	Rate
		s.	d.
Hams	per ton	2	0
Hardware not otherwise described including Bedsteads, Lamps and holloware	per cwt.	0	2
Harmoniums and Small Organs	each	2	6
Hats	per cwt.	0	3
Hay	per ton	1	3
Hemp, Flax or Tow	per cwt.	0	1½
Hides and Skins	per cwt.	0	1½
Honey	per cwt.	0	2
Hoops	per cwt.	0	1
Hops	per cwt.	0	3
Hop Bitters	per cwt.	0	1½
Ice	per ton	1	0
Indian Corn	per ton	1	3
Indian Meal	per ton	1	3
India Rubber	per cwt.	0	3
Indigo	per cwt.	0	2
Ink	per cwt.	0	1½
Iron, Pig	per ton	0	4
" Bar	per ton	1	3
" Castings	per ton	1	0
" Hoops or Rods	per ton	1	3
" Rails or Fencing	per ton	1	3
" Ore	per ton	0	6
" Sheet	per ton	1	3
" Galvanized	per ton	1	3
" Scrap	per ton	1	0
Jewellery	per cwt.	0	6
Kainit	per ton	1	0
Kelp	per ton	1	8
Lampblack	per cwt.	0	1
Lard or Lardine	per cwt.	0	1½
Lead	per ton	1	3
" Piping	per ton	1	8
" White or Red	per ton	2	6
Lead or Zinc Ore	per ton	0	6
Leather	per cwt.	0	4
Lemon or Lime Juice	per cwt.	0	1½
Lime	per ton	0	10
Limestone	per ton	0	6

Linseed Cake, including Cotton Cake	per ton	1	0
Linseed Meal	per ton	1	3
Liqueurs	per cwt.	0	3
Live Stock :—
Asses	each	1	0
Cattle, Cows and Bulls	each	2	0
Cattle, Yearlings	each	1	0
Goats	each	0	6
Horses, Mares and Geldings	each	2	0
Mules	each	1	6
Pigs	each	0	4
Sheep	each	0	4
Sheep, Lambs	each	0	3
Luggage	per cwt.	0	2½

Goods	Rate.
		s.	d.
Machinery and Machines	per cwt.	0	3
Malt	per cwt.	0	1
Manure, Manufactured	per ton	1	0
Marble	per ton	1	0
Margarine	per cwt.	0	1
Mats	per cwt.	0	2
Matches	per cwt.	0	2
Meters, Gas	per cwt.	0	2
Methylated Spirit	per cwt.	0	1½
Millstones	per cwt.	0	1½
Mineral Waters	per cwt.	0	1½
Molasses	per cwt.	0	2
Motor Cars	each	10	0
" Chassis	each	5	0
" Cycles	each	2	6
" Spirit	per ton	2	6
" Tyres	per cwt.	0	2
" Lorries and Vans	each	10	0
Nails	per cwt.	0	1
Naphtha	per cwt.	0	1
Nets	per cwt.	0	2
Oakum	per ton	1	0
Oatmeal	per ton	1	3
Oat Hulls	per ton	0	6
Oil	per cwt.	0	1½
Oil, Crude	per ton	1	8
Oil-cloth and Linoleum	per cwt.	0	1½
Onions	per cwt.	0	1½
Offals and Coarse Meat	per cwt.	0	1
Paints	per cwt.	0	1½
Paper	per cwt.	0	2
Perambulators	per cwt.	0	3
Phosphate Rock	per ton	0	9
Petroleum	per ton	2	0
Pianofortes	each	4	0
Pigs, Dead	per ton	2	0
Pipes, Drainage	per cwt.	0	1
Pitch	per ton	1	0
Plaster of Paris	per ton	1	0
Pollard	per ton	1	3
Pork	per ton	2	0
Potatoes	per ton	0	9
Poultry Food	per cwt.	0	1
Protectors, Boot	per cwt.	0	1
Putty	per cwt.	0	1
Quicksilver	per cwt.	0	3
Radiators	per ton	1	6
Rags	per cwt.	0	1½
Rabbits	per cwt.	0	1½
Reeds, Cane	per cwt.	0	1
Resin	per cwt.	0	1
Rinsings	per cwt.	0	1
Rope and Cordage, New	per cwt.	0	2
Rope, Old	per cwt.	0	1
Rum	per cwt.	0	2½
Saddlery	per cwt.	0	2

Goods	Rate.
		s.	d.
Salt	per ton	0	8
Saltpetre	per ton	2	0
Salts, Epsom, etc.	per cwt.	0	1½
Screws	per cwt.	0	2
Scythe Stones	per cwt.	0	1
Seaweed	per ton	1	8
Seeds, Agriculture or Garden	per cwt.	0	2
Seeds, Flax	per cwt.	0	1½
Sheep Dip	per cwt.	0	1
Shellfish	per cwt.	0	1½
Shoe Pegs	per cwt.	0	1
Shot, Lead	per cwt.	0	1
Shudes	per ton	0	10
Slag, Basic, Ground	per ton	1	0
Slag, Basic, Ore	per ton	0	6
Slates	per ton	1	0
Snuff	per cwt.	0	2
Soap	per cwt.	0	2
Soap, Soft	per cwt.	0	2
Soda, Baking	per ton	1	6
Soda, Crystals	per ton	1	0
Solder	per cwt.	0	1
Soot	per ton	1	0
Spades and Shovels	per cwt.	0	2
Starch	per cwt.	0	2
Stationery	per cwt.	0	3
Steel	per ton	1	3
Stones	per ton	0	6
Sugar	per ton	2	6
Sulphate of Copper	per ton	1	4
Sulphur	per cwt.	0	1½
Tallow	per cwt.	0	1
Tar	per ton	1	0
Tea	per cwt.	0	4
Tiles	per ton	1	0
Timber, Sawn, all kinds	per ton	1	3
Timber, Rough Native	per ton	0	6
Tin Plates	per cwt.	0	2
Tin, Blocks	per cwt.	0	1½
Tobacco	per cwt.	0	3
Tobacco Pipes, Clay	per cwt.	0	1½
Tobacco Pipes, Fancy	per cwt.	0	2
Tools	per cwt.	0	2
Toys	per cwt.	0	1½
Trees and Plants	per cwt.	0	1½
Turf	per ton	0	6
Turpentine, Raw	per cwt.	0	1
Turpentine, Spirits of	per cwt.	0	2
Vegetables (not classified)	per cwt.	0	1½
Vinegar	per cwt.	0	1½
Vitriol	per cwt.	0	1
Wax, Cobblers'	per cwt.	0	1½
Wheat	per ton	1	3
Whiskey	per cwt.	0	2½
Whiting	per ton	1	0

Goods	Rate.
		s.	d.
Wine	per cwt.	0	2½
Wood Fibre	per ton	0	10
Wool	per cwt.	0	3
Yarn	per cwt.	0	2
Yeast	per cwt.	0	1

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of February, 1943.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.