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FERRIES (ACQUISITION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES) ACT 1919 - SECT 1

1.(1) [The Department of the Environment] may... purchase or accept the
transfer of, and the owner of any existing ferry may sell or transfer to [the
Department], upon such terms as may be agreed on between the owner and [the
Department], any existing ferry....

(2) Subject to the provisions of any Act of Parliament under which the ferry
was established, and to the rights of any other persons, [the Department of
the Environment] may work, maintain and improve the ferry and charge such
tolls as were legally chargeable in respect of the ferry before the sale or
transfer thereof to [the Department], or such other tolls as [the
Department]... may determine, or... [the Department] may, if they think fit,
free the ferry from tolls, and shall have the rights and powers which the
owner of the ferry possessed and shall be subject to the obligations and
liabilities to which he was subject.

Subs.(3) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285

(4) In this Act the expresssion "existing ferry" means any ferry legally
established by Act of Parliament or otherwise at the date of the purchase or
transfer, and includes all boats and other vessels, landing stages,
approaches, apparatus, plant and other property used in connection with the
ferry.

(5) The Minister of Transport shall have the like powers with respect to the
holding of local inquiries for the purposes of this Act as are conferred by
article 32 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments)
Order 1898, upon the Local Government Board for Ireland for the purposes of
that Order.

Subs.(6) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285; subs.(7)(8) rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149
sch.9

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