S.I. No. 282/1950:

DUBLIN HARBOUR WORKS ORDER, 1950.

DUBLIN HARBOUR WORKS ORDER, 1950.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Part VIII of the Harbours Act, 1946 (No. 9 of 1946), and on the application of the Dublin Port and Docks Board, hereby orders as follows :--

1. This order may be cited as the Dublin Harbour Works Order, 1950.

2. In this Order--

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Industry and Commerce ;

the expression " the Board " means the Dublin Port and Docks Board ;

the expression " local authority " has the same meaning as it has in the local Government Act, 1941 (No. 23 of 1941) ;

the expression " the plan and specification " means the plan and specification deposited by the Board with the Minister in connection with its application for this Order ;

the expression " the works " means the works authorised by this Order.

3. The Board is hereby authorised to carry out and complete in accordance with the plan and specification the following works, that is to say :--

(1) The construction of a mass concrete Graving Dock 646 feet long, 95 feet wide and 33 feet deep, cope to floor, at Alexandra Quay, Dublin, the West side of the new dock to be 88 feet from the East side of the existing Graving Dock and the floor to be at a level of 13.57 feet below Ordnance Datum, including the driving of permanent and temporary steel sheet piling round the new dock.

(2) The construction of an entrance chamber 61 feet long, 86 feet wide and 33 feet deep through Alexandra Quay to the new dock, including the driving of steel sheet piling on each side of the chamber and the construction and removal of a temporary cofferdam at the entrance through Alexandra Quay.

(3) The construction of culverts, sumps, shafts, pump wells and pump house on the East side of the new dock.

(4) The construction of a reinforced concrete jetty on the West side of the new dock entrance extending for a length of 443 feet Southwards into Alexandra Basin with a width of 39 feet and having a depth of 30 feet of water alongside at L.W.O.S.T.

(5) Ancillary works comprising the laying, removal, relaying and diversion of sewers, drains, water mains, and electric cables, taking up and relaying of quay surfaces, removal of buildings and fences on the site, erection of switch house, boundary walls, fences and gates and provision of sanitary accommodation.

(6) Provision of such equipment, including keel blocks, bilge cradles, pumps, valves, sluices, caissons, air compressors, compressed air, hydraulic and water mains, hydrants, fire fighting appliances, electric power and lighting supplies, lamps, switchgear and transformers, cranes, crane rails and piled foundations therefor, plug boxes, capstans, fair leads, winches, hoists, mooring appliances, fenders and oil tanks as may be necessary for the proper use of the Graving Dock and Jetty.

4. The works shall be completed within five years from the commencement of this Order.

5.--(1) The Board may cause any public or private roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, water-courses, railway-sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires and apparatus as shall be in or near the intended situation of the works to be opened, stopped up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with (whether temporarily or permanently), as the Board shall think necessary or convenient for making and completing or in connection with the works or any of them, or the operations and conveniences connected therewith, or for any of the purposes of its undertaking ; so that the Board do, previously to stopping up or otherwise interfering with the same, make and provide in lieu of such roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, watercourses, railway sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires or apparatus, good and sufficient means of passing and repassing or conducting traffic by roads, paths, highways, streets, or railway sidings, and good and sufficient means for conveying off the water and sewage from the adjoining or neighbouring lands and premises affected and good and sufficient alternative wires and other apparatus for such purposes as the wires and apparatus so to be altered or interfered with are accustomed to serve, as convenient in all respects as the public and private roads, highways, streets, footpaths, tunnels, streams, water-courses, railway sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, wires and apparatus so to be opened, stopped up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with as aforesaid, but before interfering with any public works under the control of a local authority the Board shall give three weeks' previous notice in writing to such local authority of the nature of their intended interference, and the Board shall exercise its powers in respect of any such works to the reasonable satisfaction of such local authority and the Board shall not be authorised by virtue of this Article to interfere with any works under the control of the Electricity Supply Board without having obtained the previous consent in writing of the Minister, who before giving any such consent shall consult with and consider any representation which the Electricity Supply Board may make to him.

(2) In case of any dispute or difference between the Board and any person or body aggrieved by anything done or omitted to be done by the Board in exercise of its powers under this Article every such dispute or difference shall be referred, with full power to award costs, to the final decision of two arbitrators, one chosen by each party, and, if the arbitrators disagree, of an umpire chosen by the arbitrators before they sit, and shall be deemed to have been so referred in pursuance of a submission by deed executed by the parties.

6. Nothing in this Order shall authorise any interference except by consent of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs with any telegraphic lines of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs as defined by the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928, or other property of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs or any of the rights of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs under the said Acts.

7. All costs, charges, fees and expenses of or incidental to preparing and obtaining this Order, or otherwise incurred in relation thereto shall be paid by the Board out of its funds.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 4th day of November, 1950.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the Seal of the said Minister.