Dublin Port and Docks Act 1902
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1902 c. ccxliv |
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Dublin
Port and
Docks
Act, 1902. [Ch. CCXliv.]
CHAPTER ccxliv.
An Act to enable the Dublin Port and Docks Board to
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make new provisions with respect to the lists of electors ~
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of elective members of the Board to acquire lands for
widening quays to provide quay traffic facilities to erect
labouring class dwellings to borrow further moneys for
the improvement of the port to substitute new mortgages
for those created under the Dublin Port and Docks Acts
of 1869 and 1879 to authorise additional and substituted
rates to confer further powers upon the Board and to
vary their existing Acts and for other purposes.
[8th August 1902.]
W
HEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in
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the twenty-sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King c-19,
George the Third intituled " An Act for Promoting the Trade of
" Dublin
by
rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious " and
by divers other Acts of the Parliament of Ireland and of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
the corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin
were entrusted with various powers and expended large sums of
money in deepening the .River Liffey and in making improvements
from time to time required with a view of supplying the neeessary
accommodation for increasing the trade of the port of Dublin:
And whereas by the Dublin Port Act 1867 (hereinafter referred
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to as " the Act of 1867 ") the name of the corporation for preserving c> lxxx1,
and improving the port of Dublin was changed to the Dublin Port
and Docks Board (hereinafter called " the Board ") and the constitu-
tion of that body was altered but save as to the constitution of the
Board the provisions of the previous Acts relating to the Board
remained substantially unaltered:
And whereas by the Dublin Port and Docks Act 1869 (hereinafter
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referred to as "the Act of 1869") the said several Acts of the c,c*
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Docks
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1902.
Parliament of Ireland and of the Uuited Kingdom relating to the
— Board were consolidated and amended and it was enacted that the
care management and superintendence of the port of Dublin shonld
be vested in the Board together with the building repairs and
maintenance" of all quay walls bridges and embankments included
within the said port and that the Board should continue and be
seised possessed of and entitled to all rights interests and properly
of or to which they were at the passing of the Act of 1869 seised
possessed or entitled as if that Act had not been passed:
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And whereas by the Dublin Port and Docks Act 1879 (hereinafter
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ckx. referred to as " the Act of 1879 ") further powers were conferred
upon the Board:
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And whereas by the Dublin Port and Docks Act 1898 (herein-
c.dxxx. after referred to as «tne ^ct 0f 1898") the constitution of the
Board was altered and further powers (including the power to
create and issue redeemable stock) were conferred on the Board:
And whereas it is expedient that new provisions in regard to
the making out and revising the lists of electors of elective members
of the Board as hereinafter mentioned should be authorised :
And whereas the tonnage and size of vessels trading to and from
the port of Dublin have largely increased and for the efficient
maintenance of the said port and trade of Dublin it is expedient
that the existing accommodation for vessels and goods should
be extended and that further facilities should be provided by the
Board:
And whereas warehouses stores or other premises front or adjoin
the several quays quay walls and roads constructed by or vested
in
the Board along or near to the Eiver Liffey and with the view
of facilitating the transit of goods to or from such warehouses
stores and other premises from or to the River Liffey or across such
quays or quay walls and of relieving such quays walls and roads
from cross traffic it is expedient to authorise quay traffic facilities
and appliances and the working thereof in manner hereinafter
mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient that powers should be conferred on
the Board with regard to the production and use of electrical energy
for lighting or motive power within the said port in manner
hereinafter mentioned:
And whereas owing to increasing traffic the North Wall Quay
should be widened and it is expedient that powers should be
conferred on the Board for acquiring property for this purpose:
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Docks
Act, 1902. [Oh. CCXllV.]
And whereas in connection with the gradual deepening of the A.D. 19021
River Liffey and improvement of the navigation the increase of • *—
dock accommodation and the rebuilding and extension of the quays
and walls adjoining or near to the River Liffey from time to time
effected and carried on by the corporation for preserving and
improving the port of Dublin and the Board as their successors
and with a view of still further developing the trade and commerce
of the said port it is expedient that facilities appliances and regula-
tions found advantageous in other ports or which may be otherwise
expedient in the circumstances of the said port should be authorised
and provided and that the provisions contained in the Acts of
1869 1879 and 1898 should in these and other respects be amended
as hereinafter mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient that the Board should be enabled to
provide dwellings for labourers and artisans employed in and about
the said port:
And whereas the provisions of the Acts of 1869 and 1879 with
respect to rates leviable in the port of Dublin no longer correspond
to the circumstances of shipping and the requirements of trade at
the present day and it is expedient that the rates leviable under the
Act of 1869 and the Act of 1879 should in certain cases be increased
and also in certain cases be reduced that the timber rates &c. as
defined in Schedule X. of the Act of 1869 should be repealed that
the provisions of those Acts as to pilotage rates should be altered
and that substituted or new provisions should be authorised and
made as to rates in respect of goods rent for use of quay space
provisions in respect of tugboats and in other respects as hereinafter
mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Board to levy
tonnage rates on steam vessels on a tonnage not being less than
fifty per centum of the gross register tonnage of such steam
•vessels:
And whereas it is expedient that in respect of storage or other
shed accommodation provided by them the supply of cranes and
other mechanical appliances the Board should be enabled to make
and recover reasonable charges :
And whereas an Act was passed in the fifty-fifth year,of the 55
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reign of His late Majesty King George the Third intituled " An Act «• ™l-
" to authorise the appointment of Commissioners for erecting a
" harbour for ships to the eastward of Dunleary within the port
•' and Harbour of Dublin " and various Acts were from time to time
passed amending the same: A 2 a
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