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PILOTAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962

Type Act
Publication 1962-02-21
Last updated 1996-05-20
State Repealed superseded text
Text As published
Source Irish Statute Book
articles 6

This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

1 amending act · 1996-05-20, HARBOURS ACT, 1996

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AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE PILOTAGE ACT, 1913. [21st February, 1962.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1 Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

“the Minister” means the Minister for Transport and Power;

“the Principal Act” means the Pilotage Act, 1913.

2 Pilotage dues in respect of certain ships exempted from compulsory pilotage.

2.—(1) Where—

the pilotage authority for that district may, by bye-law, require the payment of pilotage dues in respect of any navigating by ships of that class in that district for the purpose of entering, leaving or making use of any port in that district and, while a bye-law under this section is in force in relation to ships of any class, ships of that class shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 49 of the Principal Act, to be ships for which the services of licensed pilots have been obtained.

3 Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.

3.—Section 17 (which provides for the making of bye-laws by pilotage authorities) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) after “licensed pilot” of “and in respect of ships of a class which was subject to compulsory pilotage in the district on the 1st day of January, 1961, and which is exempted from compulsory pilotage by bye-law made under section 11 of this Act.”

4 Laying of certain bye-laws under Principal Act before Houses of Oireachtas.

4.—Where a bye-law made by a pilotage authority under the Principal Act exempts from compulsory pilotage in the pilotage district of the authority a class of ships not in practice exempted from compulsory pilotage in that district at the date of the passing of the Principal Act and the bye-law is confirmed by the Minister, it shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling the bye-law is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the bye-law is laid before it, the bye-law shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

5 Repeal.

5.—The proviso to subsection (4) of section 11 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed.

6 Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.

6.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Pilotage (Amendment) Act, 1962.

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