Merchant Shipping (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Act, 1997

Commissioners may make contracts in respect of maritime navigation, etc.

6.—(1) The Commissioners shall have, and be deemed always to have had, power, for gain or otherwise, to enter into an agreement, with the consent of the Minister—

(a) for the provision, erection, placing, alteration, maintenance or removal of any lighthouse, buoy or beacon or any radio navigation system or other maritime navigation system, or

(b) for the performance of any service anywhere relating to maritime navigation, safety, distress, wreck location, pollution or related matters,

by the Commissioners on behalf of a harbour authority or any other person.

(2) The Commissioners shall send to the Minister a copy of every agreement entered into by them, after the passing of this Act, by virtue of this section.