S.I. No. 172/1954:

ROYAL CANAL (LONGFORD) (ABANDONMENT) WARRANT, 1954.

ROYAL CANAL (LONGFORD) (ABANDONMENT) WARRANT, 1954.

WHEREAS Córas Iompair Éireann have applied to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, pursuant to Section 45 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, for authority to abandon, as an unnecessary canal, the part of the Royal Canal at Longford hereinafter more particularly described :

AND WHEREAS it appears to the Minister that that part of the canal was at the time of making the application unnecessary for the purposes of public navigation :

AND WHEREAS the Minister is satisfied that the requirements of the said Act have been complied with by the applicants :

NOW, I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do by this Warrant order as follows :

1. This Warrant may be cited as the Royal Canal (Longford) (Abandonment) Warrant, 1954.

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

3. Córas Iompair Éireann are hereby authorised to abandon that part of the Royal Canal belonging to them and consisting of the canal harbour at Longford together with that part of the canal situate between the harbour and a point on the canal twenty yards to the south of the centre line of the railway bridge which crosses the canal to the east of Longford Railway Station.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 5th day of August, 1954.

(Signed) WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.