Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Act 1874
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[37 & 38 VICT.] The Pier and Harbour Orders [Ch. clxxxv.]
Confirmation
Act, 1874.
CHAPTER clxxxv.
An Act to confirm, with Amendments, certain Provisional A-D-1874«
Orders made by the Board of Trade under The General
Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Bray, Buckie
(Cluny), Carlingford Lough, Cattewater, Eyemouth, Great
Yarmouth, Kinsale, Lybster, Sandown, Sidmouth, Tees, and
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight). [7th August 1874.]
W
HEREAS a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade
24 & 25
Vict.
under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, is not of c'
any validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act
of Parliament:
And whereas the Board of Trade have made certain Provisional
Orders relating to Bray, Buckie (Cluny), Carlingford Lough, Catte-
water, Eyemouth, Great Yarmouth, Kinsale, Lybster, Sandown,
Sidmouth, Tees, and Yarmouth (Isle of Wight):
And whereas the Carlingford Lough and Cattewater Orders have
been amended by Parliament, and those Orders as so amended, and
the other Orders as made by the Board of Trade, are set out in the
schedule of this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the said Orders be confirmed by
Act of Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1.
The several Orders set out in the schedule to this Act shall be Confirma-
and the same are hereby confirmed, and all the provisions thereof
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in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule schedule.
shall, from and after the passing of this Act, have full validity
and force.
2.
Nothing contained in this Act or in the Cattewater Harbour Saving
Order hereby confirmed shall abridge, prejudice, take away, or affect r,Shts>&c<
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A.D.
1874.
of War De-
partment in
Hooe Lake,
&c.
Short title.
[Ck.
clxxxv.]
The
Pier and Harbour Orders
Confirmation
Act, 1874 [37 & 38
VICT.]
any
right, power, authority, or privilege vested in, exercised, or
enjoyed
by the Secretary of State for War, or the War Department,
or
any of its officers, in, on, or over Hooe Lake, or without the
assent
in writing of the Secretary of State for War in, on, or over.
any
lands required for the purposes of the works authorised by the
said
Order.
3.
This Act may be cited as the Pier and Harbour Orders
Confirmation
Act, 1874
The
SCHEDULE of ORDERS.
1.
BEAT.—Construction
of pier.
2.
BUCKIE (Cluny).—Construction of harbour and piers.
3.
CAKLINGFOKD
LOUGH.
—Amendment of former Orders.
4. GATTEWATER.—Construction
of harbour and pier.
5. EYEMOUTH.—Amendment
of Local Act.
6. GrEEAT
YAEMOCTH.—Construction
of harbour works and amendment of
Local Act.
7. KINSALE.—Amendment
of former Order.
8.
LTBSTEE.—Power
to levy rates in existing harbour.
9.
SANDOWN.—Construction
of pier.
10. SIDMOUTE.—Construction
of piers and landing-places. >
11.
TEES.—Extension
of time for construction of works already authorised by
Parliament.
12.
YAEMOUTH (Isle of Wight).—Construction of pier.
Bray.
Undertakers.
Incorporation
of Lands
Clauses Acts.
Power to take
lands by
agreement.
BKAY.
Order
for
the
construction,
maintenance,
and
regulation
of a
Pier
at
Bray, in the
county
of Wichlow.
1.
The Bray Marine Iron Jetty Company (Limited), in this Order called
"
the Company," shall be the Undertakers of the works authorised by this
Order.
2.
The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, I860, and 1869, except so
much thereof as relates to the purchase or taking of lands otherwise than by
agreement, shall be incorporated with this Order.
3.
For the purposes of the works authorised by this Order, the Company
may from time to time by agreement enter on, take, and use all or such parts
of the lands shown on the plans deposited for the purposes of this Order as
they think requisite for the purposes of the proposed pier and works, and the
conveniences connected therewith.
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[37 & 38
VICT.]
The Pier and Harbour Orders [Oh. clxXXV.]
Confirmation
Act, 1874. A D 1874
4.
The Company may purchase and hold for extraordinary purposes any Bray.
land not exceeding in extent in the whole five acres. extraordinary
5.
Subject to the provisions of this Order, and subject also to such alterations p
(if any) in the deposited plans as theBoard of Trade require from time to time make
-works.
before the completion of the works in order to prevent injury to navigation,
the Company may, on the lands taken by them under this Order, and in the
lines and according to the levels shown on the deposited plans and sections (so
far as the same are shown thereon), and within the limits of deviation shown on
these plans, make and maintain the pier and works authorised by this Order.
6. The works authorised by this Order comprise the following :— Description
A pier at Bray, in the county of Wicklow, with a landing-place and all of works
necessary works and conveniences suitable for the embarking and landing
of passengers and their luggage, and for other purposes, commencing at or
near a point on the foreshore distant seven chains or thereabouts eastward
from the eastern rail of the level crossing of the Dublin and Wicklow
Railway at the Bray station of the said railway, in the township of Bray,
parish of Bray, and county of Wicklow, and extending seaward in an
easterly direction for a distance of 1,000 feet or thereabouts.
7.
When a certificate has been obtained from the Board of Trade that all Power to take
consents and approvals on the part of the Board of Trade required under this
™
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Order or otherwise necessary to the due construction of the works authorised t0 tilis Order.
by this Order have been given, the Company may, subject and according to the
provisions of this Order, for the use of the pier and works demand and receive
in respect of the persons and things in the schedule to this Order specified any
sums not exceeding the rates in that schedule mentioned.
8. If at any time it appear to the Board of Trade that the clear annual
Board
of Trade
profits divisible on the subscribed and paid-up capital of the Company, on the ™tggreduce
average of the then three last preceding years, exceed the rate of ten pounds
per cent, per annum on such paid-up capital, the Board of Trade may, if in
their discretion they think fit, require the Company to reduce the rates leviable
under this Order to such amounts as will be sufficient to provide the aforesaid
interest at the rate of ten pounds per cent, per annum, and the said rates shall
thereupon be reduced accordingly, with power to the Board of Trade at any
time and from time to time, if and when the profits fall below the said rate of
ten per cent, per annum, to authorise, the Company to raise the rates again to
not exceeding the amounts specified in the schedule to this Order.
9. The Company within one month after sending to the clerk of the peace Annual ac-
the copy of their annual account, in abstract, shall send a copy of the same to °0™' t(Lt>e ^
the Board of Trade. If the Company refuse or neglect to comply with this of Trade.
provision, they shall for every such refusal or neglect be liable to a penalty not
exceeding twenty pounds; and the sixteenth section of " The General Pier and
Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act," shall apply to and include any and
every such account.
10.
Fishing vessels belonging to countries with which for the time being Certain fishing
vcsssls nuclei*
treaties exist exempting from duties and port charges such vessels when forced stress of
by stress of weather to seek shelter in the ports or on the coast of the United wea*her ex"
J t. • •• empt from
A 2 3 rates.
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