S.I. No. 64/1985 - Harbour Rates (Dublin Harbour) Order. 1985.

1. (

a

) Casks or Drums shall be charged for on the full content on the following scale:—

Quarter cask—not exceeding 150 litres

Barrel—not exceeding 150-195 litres

Hogshead—not exceeding 195-300 litres

Pipe, Butt, Puncheon—not exceeding 300-573 litres

(

b

) Casks, vats or tanks of more than 573 litres capacity to be subject to special arrangements.

Cases and cartons.

2. The rates shall apply to packages of 1 dozen bottles or 2 dozen half bottles with a liquid content of approximately 9 litres, and packages of substantially greater size shall be charged proportionately higher rates.

Housing.

3. The housing rate shall include receiving, presenting to Customs, stowing to rotation and number, furnishing Customs particulars and rent to the end of the month during which a consignment (or part thereof) is received.

Unhousing.

4. Rent per week ....AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE 5 OF GENERAL PROVISIONS

5.

Sundry Rates

Repairs—major damage ... ... ...

£1.13 per package

Minor damage ... ... ... ...

.24p per package

Re-packing or taring

£1.67 per package

Opening, examining and garbling (if necessary) stained or suspect packages, repacking and furnishing returns... ... ... ...

£2.83 per package

Consigning or delivering to third party...

.7p per package

Minimum... ... ... ...

.24 per package

Transferring... ... ... ... ...

6p per package

Minimum... ... ... ...

£1.12 per package

Sampling... ... ... ... ...

.45p per package

Blending or Bulking... ... ... ...

.10p per kilo on

nett out-turn weights

UNMANUFACTURED TOBACCO STORED UNDER BOND

1.

Receiving Rate

— Receiving at warehouse, sorting, weighing nett, sampling at time of weighing, marking, 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... ... ... ... ...

£14.77

Cases... ... ... ... ...

£9.25

Bales

£5.92

... ... ... ... ... ... ...

2.

Rent:—

Casks... ... ... ... ...

88p per month

Cases... ... ... ... ...

48p per month

Bales... ... ... ... ...

37p per month

3.

Unhousing

Casks... ... ... ... ...

£3.34

Cases... ... ... ... ...

£2.37

Bales... ... ... ... ...

88p

4.

Weighing Gross

All packages (at receipt or delivery)

68p

All packages (at any other time)... ...

£3.34

5.

Weighing nett and/or sampling outside Receiving Rate

:—

Casks

£8.87

Cases

£4.82

5. Coopering attendance at warehouse is not charged for but a charge will be made for any work done or materials supplied to make casks safe for storage or delivery.

PART IV

WAREHOUSING RATES

Housing

Unhousing

Rent per week

£

£

General Goods

1.93

1.93

75p

EXCEPTIONS

By Arrangement

Fabrications, Furniture,

Machinery (incl. Vehicles) Steel

TEA

1.

Receiving Rate

Attendance at discharge (if arranged in advance), cartage from ship to warehouse, Customs clearance, weighing gross, marking weights, sampling for Customs, sorting to breaks, furnishing returns of weights and of damage, breaking our to merchants orders and unhousing, but excluding—

(

a

) Overtime arranged or required to receive from ship teas discharged during ship's overtime, or to receive teas from transit shed outside ordinary warehouse hours,

(

b

) Customs charges for cart following,

(

c

) sorting, classifying and making good import damage,

(

d

) passing entry for or collections of small lots of tea overcarried by importing vessels,

(

e

) overtime worked to meet requirements of importer,

(

f

) cartage at delivery,

(

g

) extra coopering beyond that required to make fit for town delivery—

34p per 10 kilogrammes gross on advised weights.

2.

Transit Rate

for teas landed at Dublin for immediate delivery to other points; attendance at discharge, cartage from ship to warehouse, sorting to merchants' lots, presenting to Customs and Customs sampling, furnishing returns of damage and unhousing—

88p per package,

if sorting and delivery to breaks is required—

£1.13 per package.

3.

Housing and Unhousing

Tea delivered to warehouse in merchants' lots

without sorting, examining, weighing, sampling or furnishing returns of marks or numbers ... ...

33p per package

if examined, checked and sorted to breaks ...

56p per package

6. Dividing:—

£6.60 per part

In Transit Rates

:— Receiving, weighing gross, stowing, unhousing and rent to end of week.

Casks

£4.42

Cases and Bales

£2.26

Rent per week thereafter

Casks

.24p

Cases and Bales

.12p

MANUFACTURED TOBACCO, CIGARS, CIGARETTES —–

Stored under Bond

Housing

Unhousing

Rent per week

p

p

p

Packages not exceeding .057c. mtrs.

24

24

9

Packages not exceeding .142c. mtrs.

45

45

12

Packages not exceeding .34c. mtrs.

68

68

24

WINES AND SPIRITS

Housing

Unhousing

Rent per week

£

£

£

Pipe/Butt/Puncheon

3.34

3.34

1.67

Hogshead or Barrel

2.26

2.26

1.13

Quarter cask

1.12

1.12

.45p

Case/Carton

.33

.33p

24p

"

GIVEN under my hand, this 26th day of February, 1985.

TED NEALON,

Minister of State at the Department of Communications.

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— £2.83

Unhousing— £2.83

Rent—45p per week or £1.79 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 provisions subject to general provisions.

S.I. No. 64 of 1985.

HARBOUR RATES (DUBLIN HARBOUR) ORDER. 1985.

I, TED NEALON, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 104

of the

Harbours Act, 1946

(No. 9 of 1946), the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983

(No. 40 of 1983), and the Communications (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1984 (

S.I. No. 146 of 1984

), and after due compliance with section 106 of the said

Harbours Act, 1946

, hereby order as follows