No. 55/1940:

HARBOUR RATES (CORK HARBOUR, RATES ON STEEL, SEMI-MANUFACTURED AND SPELTER) ORDER, 1940.

HARBOUR RATES (CORK HARBOUR, RATES ON STEEL, SEMI-MANUFACTURED AND SPELTER) ORDER, 1940.

THE HARBOUR RATES (CORK HARBOUR, RATES ON STEEL, SEMI-MANUFACTURED AND SPELTER) ORDER, 1940, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 21st DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1940, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 3 of THE HARBOURS (REGULATION OF RATES) ACT, 1934 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if and whenever he thinks fit on the application of the harbour authority for any harbour or on the application of any person who uses or is interested in the use or development of such harbour, or without any such application, by order (in the said Act referred to as a harbour rates order) fix all or any of the rates, or, where he so thinks fit, the maximum rates to be charged by the harbour authority of such harbour, and may for that purpose revoke, modify, alter or extend by such order any statutory or other provision fixing, restricting, or otherwise regulating the rates or maximum or minimum rates chargeable by such harbour authority:

AND WHEREAS the Cork Harbour Commissioners have applied pursuant to Section 4 of the said Act to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for a harbour rates order in respect of the Port and Harbour of Cork fixing maximum import and export rates in respect of steel, semi-manufactured and spelter:

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce has pursuant to the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 5 of the said Act given notice dated 19th January, 1940, of his proposal to make such order to the Cork Harbour Commissioners, and has given the directions mentioned in that sub-section in respect of the notice required thereby to be published by the said Commissioners:

AND WHEREAS the Cork Harbour Commissioners have duly published such notice, and such notice has contained the directions mentioned in sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the said Act as regards making objections and representations to the Minister for Industry and Commerce in respect of such proposed order:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Harbours (Regulation of Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 2 of 1934), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Harbour Rates (Cork Harbour, Rates on Steel, semi-manufactured and Spelter) Order, 1940.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to this Order.

3. The rates set out in the schedule hereto shall be included in the Schedule to the Cork Harbour Act, 1933 , and the said Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

4. This Order shall take effect from the 23rd day of February, 1940.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 21st day of February, 1940.

R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.