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Adaptation of plant of transport undertakings.
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11.—(1) The Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce and the Minister for Supplies, may at any time by order addressed to the owners of any transport undertaking require that such adaptations as may be specified in such order of the plant of such undertaking be made within a specified time.
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(2) The adaptations which may be specified in an order under this section may be adaptations by way of addition to, substitution for, or removal of, any part or parts of an article included in the plant of a transport undertaking, but shall not be such as to interfere with the purpose for which the article was primarily designed.
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(3) Any person (in this sub-section referred to as an authorised person) authorised by the Minister in that behalf may at all reasonable times enter the premises of a transport undertaking and inspect the plant thereof, whether an order has or has not then been made under this section in respect of such transport undertaking, and any person who obstructs or interferes with an authorised person in the exercise of the powers conferred on an authorised person by this sub-section shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
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(4) If the owners of a transport undertaking in respect of which an order has been made under this section refuse, fail or neglect to comply with the requirements of such order, such owners shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
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(5) Where any adaptations have, in pursuance of an order under this section, been made in the plant of a transport undertaking, there shall be paid by the Minister, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to the owners of such transport undertaking by way of compensation in respect of the cost incurred by them in making such adaptations such amount as may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, be agreed upon or as, in default of agreement, may be determined in accordance with provisions to be made by statute.
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