S.I. No. 280/1952 - Transport Act, 1944 (Alteration of Maximum Railway Charges of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Company) Order, 1952.

S.I. No. 280 of 1952.

TRANSPORT ACT, 1944 (ALTERATION OF MAXIMUM RAILWAY CHARGES OF THE SLIGO, LEITRIM AND NORTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY) ORDER, 1952.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 89 of the Transport Act, 1944 (No. 21 of 1944), hereby order as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Transport Act, 1944 (Alteration of Maximum Railway Charges of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Company) Order, 1952.

(2) The Transport Act, 1944 (Alteration of Maximum Railway Charges of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Company) Order, 1951 ( S.I. No. 287 of 1951 ), and this Order may be cited together as the Transport Act, 1944 (Alteration of Maximum Railway Charges of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Company) Orders, 1951 and 1952.

2. (1) Each maximum charge specified, or calculated in accordance with a rate specified, in the Schedule to the Transport Act, 1944 (Alteration of Maximum Railway Charges of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Company) Order, 1951 ( S.I. No. 287 of 1951 ), is hereby increased by five per cent., any fraction of a penny in the result that is less than a halfpenny being ignored and any such fraction that is a halfpenny or more being reckoned as a penny.

(2) Paragraph (1) of this Article shall come into operation on the 2nd day of October, 1952.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 22nd day of September, 1952.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.