S.I. No. 192/1970 - Harbour Rates (Cork Port and Harbour) Order, 1970.

1. In the case of a steam or motor vessel the net register tonnage upon which tonnage rates shall be leviable by the Commissioners shall in no case de deemed for the purpose of rating to be less than fifty per cent. of the gross register tonnage of such vessel.

2. Where a ship (hereinafter referred to as the mother vessel) constructed to carry lighters or other vessels (hereinafter referred to as lighters) containing cargo enters the port and ships, trans-ships or unships any lighters and their cargo and does not ship, trans-ship or unship any other cargo, the mother vessel shall be liable in respect of such entry to tonnage rates under reference number 3 in Part II of this Schedule, and such lighters as are unshipped or trans-shipped shall be liable in respect of such entry to tonnage rates under reference number 1 or reference number 2 (as the case may be) in Part II of this Schedule.

3. For the purpose of charging tonnage rates, a composite vessel or barge train consisting of a power unit and separable parts, shall be rated as follows

(

a

) in case all the individual parts have gross and net register tonnages, the sum of all the individual net register tonnages or half the sum of all the gross register tonnages (whichever is the greater) shall be taken as being the net register tonnage of the whole composite vessel or barge train,

(

b

) in any other case, the composite vessel or barge train shall be rated as if it were an ordinary vessel of the same overall dimensions as the composite vessel or barge train.

4. Where the tonnage rate specified at reference number 3 in Part II of this Schedule is chargeable in respect of a ship, the ship shall not become liable to be charged any other tonnage rate specified in that Schedule by reason only of its engaging in any of the following activities

(

a

) taking on board, or landing a licensed pilot belonging to another port; or

(

b

) landing any sick or injured person or persons or the remains of any deceased person or persons; or

(

c

) landing a stowaway or stowaways.

5. If a vessel ships in the port any cargo for trans-shipment or unshipment at any port or place, other than a port or place in the State or in Great Britain, the Isle of Man, or Northern Ireland or trans-ships or unships in the port any cargo shipped at a port or place, other than a port or place in the State or in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or Northern Ireland, the tonnage rate mentioned at Reference Number 2 of Part II of this Schedule shall be payable.

6. For the purpose of assessing the tonnage rate mentioned at Reference Number 7 of Part II of this Schedule "week" means any period of seven consecutive days.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of August, 1970.

BRIAN LENIHAN,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order authorises the Cork Harbour Commissioners to charge revised maximum tonnage and goods rates.

S.I. No. 192 of 1970.

HARBOUR RATES (CORK PORT AND HARBOUR) ORDER, 1970.

I, BRIAN LENIHAN, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 104

of the

Harbours Act, 1946

(No. 9 of 1946), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), and after due compliance with section 106 of that Act, hereby order as follows: —