S.I. No. 333/1987 - Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1987

S.I. No. 333 of 1987.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LIGHT DUES) ORDER, 1987

I, BRENDAN DALY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Act, 1983 (No. 18 of 1983), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 91 of 1987 ), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1987.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1988.

2. In this Order "the Order of 1986" means the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1986 ( S.I. No. 316 of 1986 ).

3. The Second Schedule (inserted by the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1983 ( S.I. No. 247 of 1983 )) to the Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898, is hereby amended by—

( a ) the substitution for part I (inserted by Article 3 of the order of 1986) of the following:

"PART I

Scale of payments.

1. Home trade ships other than sailing ships:

( a ) Full rate: £2.10 per 10 tons per voyage.

( b ) Reduced rate (visiting cruise ships): £1.05 per 10 tons per voyage.

2. Foreign-going ships other than sailing ships:

( a ) Full rate: £4.20 per 10 tons per voyage.

( b ) Reduced rate (visiting cruise ships): £2.10 per 10 tons per voyage.

3. Home trade sailing ships: £1.05 per 10 tons per voyage.

4. Foreign-going sailings ships: £2.10 per 10 tons per voyage.

5. In place of payments per voyage the following payments:

( a ) for pleasure yachts which the general lighthouse authority is satisfied are ordinarily kept or used outside the State, Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, a payment in respect of any visit of: £1.05 per 10 tons for every period of 30 days or less comprised in such visit.

( b ) for tugs or pleasure yachts not included in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph an annual payment of: £12.60 per 10 tons.

( b ) the substitution in Rule 1 of part II of "£29.40" for "£25.87" (inserted by Article 4 of the Order of 1986) and of "£14.70" for "£12.94" (inserted by the said Article 4), and

( c ) the substitution in Rule 7 of Part II of "£1.05" for "92p" (inserted by Article 4 of the order of 1986),

and the said Rules 1 and 7, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this Article.

TABLE

1. 1. A ship shall not in any year be required to make payments on account of light dues:—

( a ) if the ship is a home trade ship, for more than 14 voyages;

( b ) if the ship is a foreign-going ship, for more than 7 voyages; and

( c ) if the ship makes voyages during the year both as a home trade and as a foreign-going ship, for more than 14 voyages, counting each voyage made as a foreign-going ship as 2 voyages:

Provided that in any year no ship which is not a sailing ship shall be required to pay more than £29.40 per 10 tons and no sailing vessel shall be required to pay more than £14.70 per 10 tons.

2. 7. Annual payments shall be payable at the commencement of the year in respect of which they are made: Provided that a new vessel shall pay only £1.05 per 10 tons for each month after the commencement of her first voyage until the first of April following.

4. The Order of 1986 is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of December, 1987.

BRENDAN DALY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order amends the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Order, 1983 in providing for an increase in the scale of payments in relation to light dues collected from vessels calling to ports within the State.