Harbours (Amendment) Act 2009

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Number 26 of 2009

HARBOURS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Definition.

2. Amendment of section 2 (interpretation) of Principal Act.

3. Limits of a company's harbour, etc.

4. Amendment of section 11 (objects of a company) of Principal Act.

5. Commercial activities outside harbour limits by a company.

6. Amendment of section 15 (provisions with respect to sale, leasing and acquisition of land) of Principal Act.

7. Transfer of certain Ministerial functions to Bord Pleanála.

8. Amendment of section 17 (articles of association) of Principal Act.

9. Amendment of section 23 (power to borrow) of Principal Act.

10. Amendment of section 28 (annual reports, chairperson's report and furnishing of information to Minister) of Principal Act.

11. Amendments to Principal Act relating to directors, etc.

12. Limits of a company's pilotage district.

13. Amendment of section 64 (pilotage charges) of Principal Act.

14. Amendment of section 70 (limitation of liability in respect of pilots) of Principal Act.

15. Amendment of section 72 (pilotage exemption certificates) of Principal Act.

16. Amendment of section 79 (power of Minister to re-organise provision of pilotage services) of Principal Act.

17. Amendment of Principal Act relating to power to establish companies in respect of harbours not mentioned in First Schedule to that Act.

18. Transfer of Bantry Bay Harbour and Tralee and Fenit Pier and Harbour, etc.

19. Consequential repeal and miscellaneous amendments relating to harbours.

20. Amendment of section 4A (Irish Maritime Development Office) of Marine Institute Act 1991.

21. Short title, collective citation and construction.

SCHEDULE 1

Amendment of Fourth Schedule (Provisions Relating to Compulsory Acquisition) to Principal Act

SCHEDULE 2

Consequential Amendments on Transfer of Certain Harbours

Acts Referred to

Number 26 of 2009

HARBOURS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HARBOURS ACTS 1996 TO 2006, TO REPEAL THE HARBOURS ACT 1976, TO TRANSFER CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT RELATING TO HARBOURS TO AN BORD PLEANÁLA AND FOR THAT AND OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2000, TO MAKE CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE IRISH MARITIME DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS.

[21st July, 2009]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: