S.I. No. 318/1978 - Harbour Rates (Galway Harbour) Order, 1978.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Galway Harbour) Order, 1978.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 27th day of November, 1978.

2. (1) The rates set out in the Schedules to this Order are hereby fixed as the maximum rates to be charged by the Galway Harbour Commissioners in respect of Galway Harbour.

(2) Where rates fixed under this Order are payable at a metric tonne charge, lesser weights shall be chargeable as follows:—

(

a

) any weight not exceeding 250 kilogrammes shall count as 250 kilogrammes,

(

b

) any weight exceeding 250 kilogrammes but not exceeding 500 kilogrammes shall count as 500 kilogrammes,

(

c

) any weight exceeding 500 kilogrammes but not exceeding 750 kilogrammes shall count as 750 kilogrammes,

(

d

) any weight exceeding 750 kilogrammes but not exceeding 1 tonne shall count as 1 tonne.

3. Every statutory or other provision fixing, restricting or otherwise regulating the rates or the maximum or minimum rates chargeable by the Galway Harbour Commissioners on subjects of charge set out in the Schedule to this Order, or the basis on which, or method by which, such rates are computed, is hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Maximum Goods Rates.

Ref. No.

Commodity

Rate per tonne except where specified

SECTION 0—FOOD AND LIVE ANIMALS

p

00

Live Animals Each

15

01

Meat and Meat preparations

36

02

Dairy produce and eggs

51

03

Fish and fish preparations

51

04

Cereals and Cereal preparations

20

05

Fruit and Vegetables

15

06

Sugar, Sugar preparations and honey

27

07

Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Spices and Manufactures thereof

51

08

Feeding stuffs for Animals (not including unmilled cereals)

22

09

Miscellaneous Food preparations

85

SECTION 1—BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO

11

Beverages

79

12

Tobacco and Tobacco Manufactures

71

SECTION 2—CRUDE MATERIALS, INEDIBLE, EXCEPT FUELS

21

Hides, Skins, Fur Skins, undressed

20

22

Oil seeds, Oil nuts and Oil kernels

36

23

Crude Rubber (incl. synthetic and reclaimed)

55

24

Wood, lumber and cork

20

25

Pulp and Waste Paper

32

26

Textile Fibres and their waste

25

27

Crude Fertilisers and Minerals (excl. coal, petroleum and

precious stones)

23

27(01)

Phosphate Rock

16.5

28

Metalliferous Ores and Metal Scrap

20

29

Crude animal and vegtable materials N.E.S.

35

SECTION 3—MINERAL FUELS, LUBRICANTS AND RELATED PRODUCTS

32

Coal, Coke, Briquettes

16.5

33

Crude oil and reformer feedstock

36

33

Motor Spirit

36

33

Other Petroleum Spirit

36

33

Other Petroleum Products

36

34

Gas (Natural and Manufactured)

71

SECTION 4—ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS

41

Animal and Vegetable Oils and Fats

38

43

Animal and Vegetable Oils and Fats (processed and waxes)

36

SECTION 5—CHEMICALS

51

Chemical Elements and Compounds

42

52

Mineral tar and Crude chemicals from coal, petroleum and

natural gas

25

53

Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials

27

54

Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Products

52

55

Essential Oils and Perfume Materials, Toilet, polishing and

cleaning preparations

71

56

Fertilisers Manufactured

24

57

Explosives

79

58

Plastic Materials etc. and Artificial Resins

33

59

Chemical Materials and Products N.E.S.

55

SECTION 6—MANUFACTURED GOODS CLASSIFIED CHIEFLY BY MATERIALS

£ p

61

Leather, Leather Manufactures N.E.S. and Dressed Furskins

71

62

Rubber Manufactures N.E.S.

79

63

Wood and Cork Manufactures (Excl. Furniture)

27

64

Paper, Paperboard and Manufactures thereof

32

65

Textile yarn, Fabrics, made up articles and related products

20

66

Non metallic mineral manufactures N.E.S.

9

67

Iron and Steel

27

68

Non Ferrous Metals

36

69

Manufactures of Metal

36

69(01)

Empty Containers or Flats (each)

36

SECTION 7—MACHINERY AND TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT

71

Machinery (other than electric)

36

72

Electrical Machinery and Apps.

52

73(01)

Motor cars, Lorries, Trucks, Vans and Motor boats (each)

1.76

73(02)

Motor cycles, cycles, boats (each)

52

73(03)

Caravans, trailers etc.

Less than 5 metres (each)

5 metres and less than 8 metres (each)

8 metres and over (each)

71

1.76

2.82

73(04)

Motor vehicles over 3 tonnes (each)

2.82

73(05)

Accompanied passenger M/cars (each)

60

SECTION 8—MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES N.E.S.

81

Sanitary Fixtures and Fittings

52

82

Furniture New

52

82(01)

Furniture Old

36

83

Travel Goods, handbags, and similar articles

52

84

Clothing

1.20

85

Footwear

52

86

Professional and other instruments, photographic and optical goods, clocks

71

87

Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles N.E.S.

1.06

88

Pianos

52

CONTAINERS OR FLATS

Containers or flats carrying any kind of goods floor space 6 metres x 2.4 metres (each)

1.76

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Maximum Tonnage Rates.

Ref. No.

Description of Charge

Rate

1.

Tonnage Rates on Vessels.

( a ) On every ton of the net register tonnage or of half the gross tonnage, whichever is the greater, of every vessel (except as hereinafter provided) entering or leaving the harbour from or to any port or place in the State, Northern Ireland or Great Britain, a sum not exceeding—

21p

( b ) On every ton of the net register tonnage or of half the gross tonnage, whichever is the greater, of every vessel entering or leaving the harbour from or to any port or place other than a port or place in the State, Northern Ireland or Great Britain, a sum not exceeding—

29p

( c ) On every ton of the net register tonnage, whichever is the greater, of every vessel entering the harbour and not shipping, unshipping or transhipping any cargo or passengers, other than provisions or fuel to be used for the purpose of the voyage, if from or to a port or place mentioned at (a) above, a sum not exceeding—

11p

( d ) On every ton of the net register tonnage or of half the gross tonnage, whichever is the greater, of every vessel entering the harbour and not shipping, unshipping or transhipping any cargo or passengers, other than provisions or fuel to be used for the purpose of the voyage, if from or to a port or place mentioned at (b) above, a sum not exceeding—

15p

( e ) On every ton of the net register tonnage or of half the gross tonnage, whichever is the greater, of every vessel lying alongside any pier or wharf or moored in the vicinity thereof or lying in any dock other than a graving dock, for each week after the expiration of a period of thirty days, a sum not exceeding—

4p

( f ) On every ton of the net register tonnage or of half the gross tonnage whichever is the greater, of every vessel not subject to charges at 1 (e) lying in the harbour—for each week after the expiration of thirty days, a sum not exceeding—

3p

2.

Tonnage Rates on Fishing Vessels.

On every mechanically propelled fishing vessel, using the harbour, as a composition of tonnage rates payable each year on 1st January, an annual sum not exceeding—

(a) If 80 tons gross or over but under 120 tons gross

£22.00

(b) If 65 tons gross or over but under 80 tons gross

£16.50

(c) If 25 tons gross or over but under 65 tons gross

£11.00

(d) If 10 tons gross or over but under 25 tons gross

£5.50

(e) If under 10 tons gross

£2.75

3.

Tonnage rates on vessels other than described at paragraphs 1 and 2.

On every vessel in whatever way propelled including yachts, sailing boats, motor boats and rowing boats, and including such vessels plying for hire, using or lying alongside any dock, wharf, or pier at the harbour as a composition in full of tonnage rates payable on the 1st day of May, an annual sum not exceeding—

£2.75

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Other (Maximum) Charges.

Ref. No.

Description of Charge

Rate

1.

For the use of any warehouse or shed for each day or part thereof exceeding the period authorised by the bye-laws of the harbour authority, for the time being in force, per square metre—

14p

2.

For the use of any wharf, pier or quay for any goods (except round native timber, including pit props, for export) for a period exceeding the period authorised by the bye-laws of the harbour authority for the time being in force—

( a ) For each week or part thereof for the first three weeks, per square metre—

27p

( b ) For each week or part thereof after the first three weeks, per square metre—

53p

3.

For the use of the harbour launch for shipping, landing or otherwise conveying a pilot within the pilotage district:—

On each occasion when a pilot joins or leaves a vessel which is not alongside a pier, quay, wharf or jetty and is—

( a ) Westward of a line drawn through the spire of Saint Nicholas' Church and continued southward through Mutton Island Lighthouse—

£15.40

( b ) Eastward of the line mentioned at (a) above

£11.00

4.

For the use of the harbour launch for any other purpose, per hour or part thereof—

£11.00

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of November, 1978.

PÁDRAIG FAULKNER,

Minister for Tourism and Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this order is to authorise Galway Harbour Commissioners to charge increased goods, tonnage and other rates at Galway Harbour.

S.I. No. 318 of 1978.

HARBOUR RATES (GALWAY HARBOUR) ORDER, 1978.

I, PÁDRAIG FAULKNER, Minister for Tourism and Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 104

of the

Harbours Act, 1946

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

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), and the Transport and Power (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1977 (

S.I. No. 305 of 1977

), and after due compliance with section 106 of the said Act, hereby order as follows