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S.I. No. 313/1996 - Harbour Rates (Harbour of Dublin, Skerries and Balbriggan) Order, 1996
Table of Provisions (19)
Statutory Text (19 Articles)
1. The use of the Board's cranes or appliances will only be granted where the applicant completes or has completed a form of Indemnity which can be obtained at the Harbour Master's Office.
2. Applications for the use of cranes or appliances must be made to the Harbour Master's Office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. save here the Harbour Master shall otherwise permit.
3. Notwithstanding that an application has been received by the Board to have any crane or appliance available at any particular time or for any particular vessel and that such application has been granted, the Board reserves complete liberty to allot the crane or appliance in question for the use of any vessel or vessels arriving in the harbour before the vessel in respect of which such application was received.
4. No responsibility whatsoever will be accepted by the Board in any circumstances for any failure or omission on their part to have any crane or appliance available or working at any specified time or during any period of time.
5. The Board will not in any circumstances accept any liability for delay, or any other consequences of any nature which may follow upon a break-down or stoppage of any crane or appliance from any cause whatsoever.
6. The Board reserves the right at any time to limit the period or hours during which the cranes may be used.
7. A crane may not be order or reserved for a longer period than one day. Where a crane is required for more than one day a separate application must be made each evening for the following day.
8. The period in respect of which cranage charges shall be payable shall commence at the time for which the crane is ordered and is in position and ready to work and shall end when the crane is no longer required and notice to this effect is given to the Harbour Office. In the absence of such notice cranage charges shall be payable up to normal stopping time, or where overtime is being worked, until the craneman is notified that he is no longer required.
9. Where a non-container crane is ordered and not used a rate of £9.17 per half-hour shall be charged until notice of cancellation has been given to the Harbour Office. In addition there shall be a penalty of £12.15 per crane for each occasion on which this may occur.
10. Where a non-container crane is retained after it has ceased to be used a rate of £9.17 per half-hour shall be charged from the time it has ceased to be used until notice that it is no longer required has been given to the Harbour Office.
11. An additional charge of £12.15 per crane shall be made where a crane man is ordered to attend before 8 a.m. to ensure that a crane will be ready to start promptly at 8 a.m. (Monday to Friday).
12. An additional charge of £5.36 per crane shall be made where a crane is used after 4.45 p.m. but is not used after 5 p.m. (Monday to Friday).
13 Where a crane is ordered for a period which includes work after 5 p.m. on a weekday, and notice of cancellation of overtime is given to the Harbour Office not later than 3 p.m., the penalty of £12.15 referred to above will apply; where notice of cancellation is given after 3 p.m. but before 4.45 p.m. a penalty of £23.90 will apply; where notice of cancellation is given after 4.45 p.m. a penalty of £28.74 will apply.
14. Where it is intended to work after 6 p.m. and it is found subsequently that the relief craneman is not required, the charge of £6.49 for retaining a craneman between 4.45 p.m. and 5 p.m. will apply unless notice of cancellation is received at the Harbour Office before 4.45 p.m.
15. Where a relief craneman is required to work through the normal tea hour 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. (Monday to Friday) a charge of £9.48 will be made.
Relief craneman
Saturday Sunday
£46.66 £68.19
16. The expression "Public Holidays" shall mean the following days, viz: 1st January, St. Patrick's Day, Easter Monday, 1st Monday in May, 1st Monday in June, 1st Monday in August, last Monday in October, Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day, Good Friday and any other day declared by the Minister as a Public Holiday or any day or portion of a day regarded generally in the Port as a substitute for any of the foregoing.
17. Subject to review by the Board any question which may arise as to the meaning of any of the foregoing conditions or as to the Rates to be charged for the use of the cranes, grabs or other appliances, or for rail haulage or for Waiting Time, shall be determined by the Harbour Master of the Board.
18. OVERTIME
(NON-CONTAINER CRANES)
Monday to Friday
from 5 p.m. to Midnight
30%
Saturday
from 8 a.m. to Noon from Noon to Midnight
30% 140%
On all days
from Midnight to 8 a.m.
140%
Sundays and Public Holidays
140%
19. TRAVELLING TIME
(NON-CONTAINER CRANES)
Monday to Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
£11.85 per hour
Monday to Friday - 5 p.m. to MidnightSaturday - 8 a.m. to Noon
£16.58 per hour
Monday to Saturday - Midnight to 8 a.m.Saturday - Noon to MidnightSunday all day
£22.20 per hour
PART II
CHARGES FOR THE USE OF ELECTRIC CRANES
4 TONNES AND UNDER
Per Hour or part £
Minimum Charge for £
Any Cargo by Grab ...
£32.34
£64.68
Other Cargoes ...
£27.40
£54.80
Two cranes used in tandem — 6 tonne rates to apply.
6 TONNE CRANES
Minimum charge for two hours ... Each additional hour ... ... ... ...
£64.68 £32.34
When used as a 4 tonne crane only, the 4 tonne crane rates to apply.
10 TONNE CRANES
Minimum charge for two hours Each additional hour
£83.12 £41.56
When used as a 6 tonne or a 4 tonne crane only, the 6 tonne or 4 tonne rates to apply. When used as a bulk crane £0.70 per tonne.
25 TONNE CRANES
Minimum charge for two hours Each additional hour
£89.82 £44.91
20 TONNE CRANES
20 Tonne bulk crane
£0.70 per tonne
LIFTING CONTAINERS OR FLATS
£23.00 per crane working hour or part thereof plus a charge of £9 per lift.
Paragraphs 11 and 12 of this Schedule do not apply to charges for container cranes.
FORK LIFT TRUCKS
Rate Minimum
£16.48 per hour £16.48
Overtime
Monday to Friday
Increase
Between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.
50%
Saturday, Sunday and Holidays
100%
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this day of , 1996
Minister for the Marine
Explanatory Note
This Order authorises the Dublin Port and Docks Board to charge revised goods, tonnage and other rates at Dublin, Skerries and Balbriggan Harbours.
I, Sean Barrett, 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