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S.I. No. 43/1943 - Harbour Rates (Sligo Port and Harbour) Order, 1943.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
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.
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.