S.I. No. 125/1991 - Harbour Rates (Dublin Harbour) Order, 1991.

1. Receiving at warehouse, sorting, weighing net, 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.

Cases

£10.51

Bales

£6.73

2.

Rent

Cases

54.5p per month

Bales

42.25p per month

3.

Unhousing

Cases

£2.69

Bales

£1.00

4.

Weighing Gross

All packages (at receipt or delivery)

77p

All packages (at any other time)

£3.80

5.

Weighing Net or Sampling Outside Receiving Rate or Both

Cases

£5.47

6.

Dividing

£7.50 per part

7.

In Transit Rates

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

Cases and Bales

£2.56

Rent per week thereafter

Cases and Bales

14.5p

Manufactured Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes — Stored under Bond

Housing

Unhousing

Rent Per Week

Packages not exceeding .157 c. mtrs.

26.75p

26.75p

10.25p

Packages not exceeding .142 c. mtrs.

50.50p

50.50p

13.50p

Packages not exceeding .34 c. mtrs.

77.25p

77.25p

27p

Wines and Spirits

Housing

Unhousing

Rent per Week

Pipe/Butt/Puncheon

£3.80

£3.80

£1.90

Hogshead or Barrel

£2.56

£2.56

£1.29

Quarter Cask

£1.28

£1.28

50p

Cases/Carton

38p

38p

27p

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of May, 1991.

JOHN P. WILSON,

Tánaiste and Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises the Dublin Port and Docks Board to charge revised warehousing rates.

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. Teas delivered to warehouse in merchants' lots

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

38p per package

If examined, checked and sorted to breaks ..........

64p per package

4.

Rent Per Week

As Provided in Clause 5 of General Provisions

5.

Sundry Rates

Repairing—

major damage ............................................................ ........

£1.29 per package

minor damage ............................................................ ........

27p per package

Re-packing or taring ............................................................ .........................

£1.90 per package

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

£3.21 per package

Consigning or delivery to third party ...........................................................

7.9p per package

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

27p per package

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

6.8 p per package

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

£1.28 per package

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

50p per package

Blending or bulking ............................................................ .........................

11.8p per kilo on net

outturn weights

Unmanufactured Tobacco Stored Under Bond

Receiving Rate

4. The unhousing rate includes breaking out, presenting to Customs for dipping or examination and tendering to carrier.

Coopering.

5. There is no charge for coopering attendance at a warehouse but a charge shall 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

£2.19

£2.19

85p

Exceptions

Fabrications, Furniture, Machienry (including Vehicles), Steel

The charge shall be subject to special arrangement.

Tea

Receiving Rate

6. (

a

) The period for which rent shall be chargeable shall be a week or a month as indicated in this Schedule; provided that other rental periods may be fixed by the Board for particular classes of goods or in particular circumstances.

(

b

) Where rates per week or per month are shown in this Schedule for any commodity the rent fixed by the Board for another period in respect of that commodity shall not exceed the rent which would be chargeable in accordance with the Schedule.

The rate for the full rental period to apply to any fractional part thereof.

7. (

a

) Where goods are removed from 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 the 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 — £3.21

Unhousing — £3.21

Rent — 50p per week or £2.03 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 purposes 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 provided, together with a reasonable addition for overheads, 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 currently charged by others 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. 125 of 1991.

HARBOUR RATES (DUBLIN HARBOUR) ORDER, 1991.

I, JOHN P. WILSON, Tánaiste and 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 the said

Harbours Act, 1946

, hereby order as follows