Next (SCHEDULE Agreement between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, Cras Iompair ireann and the Cork Harbour Commissioners.)

18 1979

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Number 18 of 1979


TRANSPORT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 1979


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Release of Board from liability to maintain certain opening bridges.

3.

Non-application of section 15 of Railways Clauses Act, 1863.

4.

Termination of certain right of navigation.

5.

Provisions relating to train services between Glanmire and Albert Quay stations.

6.

Provisions relating to Agreement dated 12th July, 1977, between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, the Board and the Cork Harbour Commissioners.

7.

Remuneration of chief officer of Board.

8.

Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1950.

9.

Repeals.

10.

Expenses.

11.

Short title.

SCHEDULE

Agreement between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, Córas Iompair Éireann and the Cork Harbour Commissioners.

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Number 18 of 1979


TRANSPORT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 1979


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO CERTAIN BRIDGES IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF CORK AND IN RELATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND THE CHIEF OFFICER OF CORAS IOMPAIR EIREANN. [16th July, 1979]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Definitions.

1. —In this Act—

the Act of 1906” means the Cork City Railways Act, 1906;

the Act of 1950” means the Transport Act, 1950 ;

the Board ” means Córas Iompair Éireann;

the bridges” means the bridges across the river Lee in the county borough of Cork which carry across the channels of that river the railway described as Railway No. 1 in section 6 of the Act of 1906 and are now known as Brian Boru Bridge and Clontarf Bridge;

the Minister” means the Minister for Tourism and Transport.

Release of Board from liability to maintain certain opening bridges.

2. —The Board is released from any liability imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1906 to maintain the bridges as opening bridges.

Non-application of section 15 of Railways Clauses Act, 1863.

3. —Section 15 of the Railways Clauses Act, 1863, which relates to the user of bridges with opening spans, shall not apply to the bridges.

Termination of certain right of navigation.

4. —Any right of navigation the exercise of which would require the maintenance of the bridges as opening bridges is terminated.

Provisions relating to train services between Glanmire and Albert Quay stations.

5. —The Board is released from any obligation to operate a service of trains over the railway line between Glanmire station and Albert Quay station (both in the county borough of Cork), and the power conferred by section 21 of the Act of 1950 to make abandonment orders (within the meaning of that section) is extended to the making of such an order in relation to that railway line.

Provisions relating to Agreement dated 12th July, 1977, between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, the Board and the Cork Harbour Commissioners.

6. —(1) The Agreement of 1977 shall have statutory effect.

(2) Each party to the Agreement of 1977—

(a) is deemed to have had power to enter into it, and

(b) is empowered, and has the duty, to carry it out.

(3) In this section “the Agreement of 1977” means the Agreement of which a copy is set out in the Schedule to this Act.

Remuneration of chief officer of Board.

7. —There shall be paid by the Board to its chief officer (whether that officer is described as the General Manager or otherwise) such remuneration and allowances as the Board, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, shall from time to time determine.

Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1950.

8. —The following is substituted for section 7 (2) of the Act of 1950:

“(2) Every member of the Board shall hold office upon such terms and conditions (including the payment, out of the funds at the disposal of the Board, of remuneration and allowances for expenses) as shall be fixed from time to time by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service.”.

Repeals.

9. —Sections 11, 22 (9), 22 (10) and 23 (3) of the Act of 1906, and section 134 of the Transport Act, 1944 , are repealed.

Expenses.

10. —The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Short title.

11. —This Act may be cited as the Transport (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1979.