S.I. No. 12/1974 - Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1974.

1. The tonnage rates (other than those specified at reference number 8 in Part I of this Schedule) shall not be chargeable on vessels trading in or upon the River Shannon.

2. For the purpose of calculating tonnage rates (other than those specified at the said reference number 8) the tonnage of vessels shall be taken to be the net register tonnage or half the gross tonnage thereof, whichever is the greater.

3. The Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1953 (

S.I. No. 356 of 1953

), the Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1958 (

S.I. No. 113 of 1958

), the Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 80 of 1959

), the Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1961 (

S.I. No. 191 of 1961

), the Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1972 (

S.I. No. 145 of 1972

), and the Harbour Rates (Limerick Harbour) Order, 1972 (

S.I. No. 239 of 1972

), are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of January, 1974.

PETER BARRY,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to revise maximum goods and tonnage rates chargeable at the Port of Limerick by Limerick Harbour Commissioners.

S.I. No. 12 of 1974.

HARBOUR RATES (LIMERICK HARBOUR) ORDER, 1974.

I, PETER BARRY, 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:—