S.I. No. 333/1987 - Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1987

1. 1. A ship shall not in any year be required to make payments on account of light dues:—

(

a

) if the ship is a home trade ship, for more than 14 voyages;

(

b

) if the ship is a foreign-going ship, for more than 7 voyages; and

(

c

) if the ship makes voyages during the year both as a home trade and as a foreign-going ship, for more than 14 voyages, counting each voyage made as a foreign-going ship as 2 voyages

Provided that in any year no ship which is not a sailing ship shall be required to pay more than £29.40 per 10 tons and no sailing vessel shall be required to pay more than £14.70 per 10 tons.

2. 7. Annual payments shall be payable at the commencement of the year in respect of which they are made: Provided that a new vessel shall pay only £1.05 per 10 tons for each month after the commencement of her first voyage until the first of April following.

3. Home trade sailing ships: £1.05 per 10 tons per voyage.

4. The Order of 1986 is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of December, 1987.

BRENDAN DALY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order amends the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1983 in providing for an increase in the scale of payments in relation to light dues collected from vessels calling to ports within the State.

5. In place of payments per voyage the following payments

(

a

) for pleasure yachts which the general lighthouse authority is satisfied are ordinarily kept or used outside the State, Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, a payment in respect of any visit of: £1.05 per 10 tons for every period of 30 days or less comprised in such visit.

(

b

) for tugs or pleasure yachts not included in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph an annual payment of: £12.60 per 10 tons.

(

b

) the substitution in Rule 1 of part II of "£29.40" for "£25.87" (inserted by Article 4 of the Order of 1986) and of "£14.70" for "£12.94" (inserted by the said Article 4), and

(

c

) the substitution in Rule 7 of Part II of "£1.05" for "92p" (inserted by Article 4 of the order of 1986),

and the said Rules 1 and 7, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this Article.

TABLE

S.I. No. 333 of 1987.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LIGHT DUES) ORDER, 1987

I, BRENDAN DALY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 2

of the

Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Act, 1983

(No. 18 of 1983), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 (

S.I. No. 91 of 1987

), hereby order as follows