S.I. No. 178/1959:

COUNTY DONEGAL RAILWAYS (DONEGAL-BALLYSHANNON) TERMINATION OF RAILWAY SERVICES ORDER, 1959

COUNTY DONEGAL RAILWAYS (DONEGAL-BALLYSHANNON) TERMINATION OF RAILWAY SERVICES ORDER, 1959

WHEREAS the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee has made application under section 9 of the Railways Act, 1933 (No. 9 of 1933), for an order authorising the said Committee to terminate the service of trains run over the section of railway line between Donegal and Ballyshannon operated by the said Committee :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Transport and Power is satisfied that the said Committee has lawful authority to carry on a road transport service affording to the public transport facilities constituting (for the purposes of the traffic carried by the railway services authorised by this Order to be discontinued) an adequate substitute for those services, and that the said Committee has given sufficient public notice of the intention to establish such road transport service :

NOW, I, Erskine H. Childers, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 9 of the Railways Act, 1933 (No. 9 of 1933), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 ( S.I. No. 125 of 1959 ), hereby order as follows :--

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the County Donegal Railways (Donegal-Ballyshannon) Termination of Railway Services Order, 1959.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1960.

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

3. The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee is hereby authorised, notwithstanding any statutory contractual or other obligation to the contrary, to terminate the service of trains run at the date of the Committee's application for this Order over the section of railway line between Donegal and Ballyshannon operated by the said Committee.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of October, 1959.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS.

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of the Order, which comes into operation on 1st January, 1960, is to authorise the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee to terminate train services on the Donegal-Ballyshannon railway line.