S.I. No. 4/1988 - Harbour Rates (Cork Port and Harbour) Order, 1988.

1. In the case of any vessel the net register tonnage upon which tonnage rates shall be leviable by the Commissioners shall in no case be deemed for the purpose of rating to be less than fifty per cent of the gross register tonnage of such vessel.

2. Where a ship (hereinafter referred to as the "mother vessel") constructed to carry lighters or other vessels (hereinafter referred to as "lighters") containing cargo enters the Port and ships, trans-ships or unships any lighters and their cargo and does not ship, trans-ship or unship any other cargo, the mother vessel shall be liable in respect of such entry to tonnage rates under reference number 3 in Part II of this Schedule, and such lighters as are unshipped or trans-shipped shall be liable in respect of such entry to tonnage rates under reference number 1 or reference number 2 (as the case may be) in Part II of this Schedule.

3. The Harbour Rates (Cork Port and Harbour) (No. 2) Order, 1986, is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 13th day of January, 1988.

BRENDAN DALY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises the Cork Harbour Commissioners to charge certain increased goods and tonnage rates at Cork harbour and to introduce a new tonnage rate for vessels loading and discharging cargo within the limits of the Port.

4. Where the tonnage rate specified at reference number 3 in Part II of this Schedule is chargeable in respect of a ship, the ship shall not become liable to be charged any other tonnage rate specified in that Schedule by reason only of its engaging in any of the following activities:—

(

a

) taking on board, or landing a licensed pilot belonging to another port; or

(

b

) landing any sick or injured person or persons or the remains of any deceased person or persons; or

(

c

) landing a stowaway.

5. If a vessel ships in the port any cargo for trans-shipment or unshipment at any port or place, other than a port or place in the State or in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or Northern Ireland, or trans-ships or unships in the Port any cargo shipped at a port or place, other than a port or place in the State or in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or Northern Ireland, the tonnage rate mentioned at reference number 2 of Part II of this Schedule shall be payable.

6. The rates payable for the entry of any passenger car ferry into the Port and the rates payable in respect of a passenger, a car, a tourist caravan, a tourist trailer, a tourist motor cycle or a tourist bicycle shipped, trans-shipped or unshipped on such passenger car ferry shall, in lieu of the rates, if any, chargeable elsewhere in this Schedule, be the rates set out in Part IV to this Schedule where

(

a

) the passenger car ferry operates between the Port and any port outside the State, and

(

b

) the owner or master elects (before or within six months of the arrival of the said passenger car ferry) to pay the rate set out in the said Part IV instead of the rate chargeable elsewhere in the Schedule.

PART IV

Optional rates payable in respect of entry into the Port of any passenger car ferry and in respect of any passenger, car, tourist caravan, tourist trailer, tourist motor cycle or tourist bicycle

For each entry of a passenger car ferry, £316.00.

For each adult passenger, 91p.

For each child passenger (aged 14 years and under), 46p.

For each infant passenger (aged 3 years and under), NIL.

For each car (tourist or trade), 380p.

For each tourist caravan, 606p.

For each tourist trailer, 253p.

For each tourist motor cycle or bicycle, 76p.

All other goods rates, as per Schedule.".

S.I. No. 4 of 1988.

HARBOUR RATES (CORK PORT AND HARBOUR) ORDER, 1988.

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

section 104

of the

Harbours Act, 1946

(No. 9 of 1946), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 (

S.I. No. 91 of 1987

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