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Pilotage (Amendment) Act, 1962

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		No. 2/1962: PILOTAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962

		ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
		1 Definitions.
		2 Pilotage dues in respect of certain ships exempted from compulsory pilotage.
		3 Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.
		4 Laying of certain bye-laws under Principal Act before Houses of Oireachtas.
		5 Repeal.
		6 Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.

		AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE PILOTAGE ACT, 1913.
		[21st February, 1962.]
		BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—



	Definitions.	1.—In this Act—
		"the Minister" means the Minister for Transport and Power
		"the Principal Act" means the Pilotage Act, 1913.
	Pilotage dues in respect of certain ships exempted from compulsory pilotage.	2.—(1) Where—
		( a ) a particular class of ships was subject to compulsory pilotage in a particular pilotage district on the 1st day of January, 1961, and
		( b ) a bye-law under the Principal Act exempting that class of ships from compulsory, pilotage in that district is in force,
		the pilotage authority for that district may, by bye-law, require the payment of pilotage dues in respect of any navigating by ships of that class in that district for the purpose of entering, leaving or making use of any port in that district and, while a bye-law under this section is in force in relation to ships of any class, ships of that class shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 49 of the Principal Act, to be ships for which the services of licensed pilots have been obtained.
		(2) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 17 of the Principal Act shall apply in relation to bye-laws made under this section in the same way as they apply in relation to bye-laws made under the Principal Act.
	Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.	3.—Section 17 (which provides for the making of bye-laws by pilotage authorities) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) after "licensed pilot" of "and in respect of ships of a class which was subject to compulsory pilotage in the district on the 1st day of January, 1961, and which is exempted from compulsory pilotage by bye-law made under section 11 of this Act."
	Laying of certain bye-laws under Principal Act before Houses of Oireachtas.	4.—Where a bye-law made by a pilotage authority under the Principal Act exempts from compulsory pilotage in the pilotage district of the authority a class of ships not in practice exempted from compulsory pilotage in that district at the date of the passing of the Principal Act and the bye-law is confirmed by the Minister, it shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling the bye-law is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the bye-law is laid before it, the bye-law shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
	Repeal.	5.—The proviso to subsection (4) of section 11 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed.
	Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.	6.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Pilotage (Amendment) Act, 1962 .
		(2) The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1952, and this Act shall be construed together as one.
		(3) This Act and the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1952, may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1962.
		(4) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Minister appoints by order.