S.I. No. 236/1950 - River Erne Hydro-Electric Scheme Approval Order, 1945 (Amendment) Order, 1950.

S.I. No. 236 of 1950.

RIVER ERNE HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME APPROVAL ORDER, 1945 (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1950.

WHEREAS under subsection (1) of section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945 (No. 12 of 1945), the Electricity Supply Board has submitted to the Minister for Industry and Commerce an amendment of the River Erne Hydro-Electric Scheme :

AND WHEREAS the said Minister has considered the said amendment and has consulted with the Minister for Agriculture as to the steps to be taken by the said Board for the protection of fisheries :

NOW, I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945 (No. 12 of 1945), hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the River Erne Hydro-Electric Scheme Approval Order, 1945 (Amendment) Order, 1950.

2. Article 3 of the River Erne Hydro-Electric Scheme Approval Order, 1945 (S. R. & O., No. 86 of 1945), is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following—

" and, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, the sum of £4,346,000 is hereby prescribed as the maximum sum to be advanced for the purpose of carrying out the Scheduled Scheme."

3. The scheme set out in the Schedule to the River Erne Hydro-Electric Scheme Approval Order, 1945 (S. R. & O., No. 86 of 1945) is hereby amended—

(a) by the extension of Work No. 4 to include the deepening of the bed of the tail race from an invert level of 0.0 to—6.0 ft. O.D.; the work to be as described under the said Work No. 4;

(b) by the extension of Work No. 13 to include the modification of the generating station therein referred to so as to provide foundations, superstructure and intake for a second 10,000 kilowatts set at Cliff; this set to be installed under the full development of the River Erne;

(c) by the extension of Work No. 14 to include the supply and erection of a new superstructure to the Great Northern Railway Bridge over the River Erne at the town of Belleek; and

(d) by the extension of Work No. 15 to include the widening of the River Erne immediately downstream of the existing sluices across the river at Belleek and the construction of portion of the piers and abutments to a new road bridge to be erected on this widening and the replacement of the existing road bridge at the same site and the construction of additional minor works on the banks of the River Erne at Belleek where the said banks may be subject to erosion caused by the new reservoir to be created by the construction of the Cliff dam.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 30th day of August, 1950.

(Signed) DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.