S.I. No. 16/1983 - Harbour Rates (Dublin Harbour) Order, 1983.

1. Receiving Rate

Reveiving at warehouse, sorting, weighing nett, sampling at time of weighing, marketing, stowing and furnishing particulars of weights and of damage. This rate includes rent up to the beginning of the month following receipt of the first part of any consignment.

Casks

£12.91

Cases

£8.09

Bales

£5.17

2. Rent

Casks

77p per month

Cases

42p per month

Bales

33p per month

3. Unhousing

Casks

£2.92

Cases

£2.07

Bales

77p

4. Weighing Gross

All packages (at receipt or delivery)

60p

All packages (at any other time)

£2.92

5. Weighing nett and/or sampling outside receiving rate

Casks

£7.75

Cases

£4.21

6. Dividing

£5.84 per part

In transit rates:—Receiving, weighing gross, stowing, unhousing and rent to end of week

Casks

£3.87

Cases & Bales

£1.97

Rent per week thereafter

Casks

21p

Cases & Bales

11p

MANUFACTURED TOBACCO, CIGARS, CIGARETTES—STORED UNDER BOND

Rent

Housing

Unhousing

per Week

Packages not exceeding .057 c.mtrs.

Packages not exceeding .142 c.mtrs

Packages not exceeding .34 c.mtrs

21p

39p

60p

21p

39p

60p

8p

11p

21p

WINES & SPIRITS

Housing

Unhousing

Rent per week

Pipe/Butt/Puncheon

Hogshead or Barrel

Quarter cask

Case/Carton

£2.92

£1.97

98p

29p

£2.92

£1.97

98p

29p

£1.46

99p

39p

21p

"

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of January, 1983.

JIM MITCHELL,

Minister for Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises increases in rates for warehousing services provided by the Dublin Port and Docks Board at the port of Dublin.

7. (

a

) Where goods are removed from a warehouse otherwise than at the end of a week, month or other rental period fixed for these goods, the full rent shall be chargeable in respect of any fractional part of that rental period.

(

b

) Rent in respect of the space occupied by or held available for the full quantity of goods in any period shall be chargeable for the period from the first day on which any part of the consignment is received into warehouse.

Minimum charges.

8. (

a

) Where small lots have to be warehoused and accounted for individually, the Board may fix minimum charges in respect of each lot, not exceeding the following:—

Housing

—

£2.47

Unhousing

—

£2.47

Rent

—

£39p per week or £1.75 per month.

(

b

) In the absence of special circumstances the minimum rates shall not be applied where average rates are charged or where occasional variations occur in traffic handled at the standard rates.

Increased rates on general goods in special circumstances.

9. The Board may increase a rate chargeable in respect of general goods by an amount or amounts up to a total of 100 per cent above that rate for the handling or storing of:—

(

a

) goods under bond,

(

b

) packages or units weighing more than 1,500 kilos each or exceeding 1.2 metres in any dimension,

(

c

) goods which cannot be piled or tiered beyond a limited height without the use of racking or other equipment,

(

d

) goods for which special accommodation or special conditions of temperature or humidity are provided,

(

e

) goods which for any special reason have to be set out or stored so that more space is occupied than would otherwise be required,

(

f

) goods which in the opinion of the Board are—

(i) hazardous, inflammable, objectionable or fragile,

(ii) in a dirty or mouldy condition or infested by insects,

(iii) insufficiently protected by packing or in frail or leaking packages or containers,

(iv) of a kind for which special cleaning, treatment or fumigation of warehouses is necessary before, during or after storage,

(v) of a kind which, because of their nature or condition, require to be stored apart from other goods,

(vi) inadequately or indistinctly marked,

(

g

) goods of a value of more than £200 per tonne or of a kind which in the opinion of the Board require an exceptional degree of care,

(

h

) goods which have to be unloaded from or loaded into cargo containers.

Cost to include overheads.

10. For the purpose of paragraphs 11 to 14 of this Part "cost" shall include the direct cost including cost of labour, materials and supervision provided by the Board for the service supplied, together with a reasonable addition for over-heads and any special circumstances which may be involved.

Sundry services.

11. Where the Board undertakes Customs clearance, cartage, forwarding and agency, furnishing stock lists or movement records, transferring, giving bond, landing or shipping, coopering or such other sundry services as are ordinarily undertaken by warehousekeepers, it may charge therefor at the rates current at the Port of Dublin for such services, and in the absence of such current rates the Board may charge the cost to the Board of providing such services.

Goods warehoused without prior notice.

12. Where goods are brought to warehouse without prior notice and have to be dropped and subsequently restowed, the cost to the Board of such restowing shall be chargeable in addition to the housing rates.

Exceptional goods.

13. Housing and unhousing of goods of exceptional size or weight or of a kind which cannot safely be handled with normal warehouse equipment shall be chargeable at cost.

Overtime.

14. The Board may make such additional charges as are necessary to meet the extra cost to the Board of work required to be done or attendance provided outside the hours during which the warehouses are normally open for business or on any Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday or Good Friday.

Units of one tonne.

15. Rates for housing, unhousing and rent set out in this Schedule are in respect of units of one tonne save where otherwise stated.

PART II

SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO GENERAL GOODS

Special provision subject to general provisions.

S.I. No. 16 of 1983.

HARBOUR RATES (DUBLIN HARBOUR) ORDER, 1983.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for 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 Tourism and Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1980 (

S.I. No. 11 of 1980

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