S.I. No. 24/1988:

DUBLIN HARBOUR WORKS (ALEXANDRA BASIN) ORDER, 1988.

DUBLIN HARBOUR WORKS (ALEXANDRA BASIN) ORDER, 1988.

I, BRENDAN DALY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 134 of the Harbours Act, 1946 (No. 9 of 1946), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 91 of 1987 ), on the application of the Dublin Port and Docks Board and after due compliance with section 136 of the said Act, hereby order as follows:

1. This order may be cited as the Dublin Harbour Works (Alexandra Basin) Order, 1988.

2. In this Order--

"the Minister" means the Minister for the Marine;

"the Board" means the Dublin Port and Docks Board;

"the drawing" means Dublin Port and Docks Board Drawing No. 30400 deposited by the Board with the Minister in connection with their application for this Order;

"the works" means the works authorised by this Order.

3. (1) The Board is hereby authorised to carry out and complete in accordance with the drawing and subject to paragraph (2) of this Article the following works in the Port of Dublin:

(a) the construction of a retaining (or quay) wall or stone-faced embankment approximately 50 metres in length at the western end of Alexandra Basin on a line running approximately from the north eastern corner of No. 3 North Transit Shed to the south eastern corner of the Lead-in Jetty to No. 1 Graving Dock;

(b) the raising by the deposit of dredged materials and/or dry filling to a level of approximately six metres L.A.T. (Lowest Astronomical Tide) of an area of approximately 2.25 hectares (which area is coloured red on the drawing), to the west of the retaining (or quay) wall or stone-faced embankment referred to in 3 (a);

(c) the provision of tramrails, electric cranes, crane rails, crane plug boxes, mooring appliances, fenders, fencing, lighting poles and ancillary works comprising surfacing, the laying of sewers, watermains, telephone and electric cables at the aforementioned retaining (or quay) wall or stone-faced embankment and reclaimed area and the doing of all work necessary or ancillary to the above construction.

(2) In executing the works, the Board may, with the consent in writing of the Minister, deviate laterally from the limits marked on the drawing and may, with the like consent, deviate vertically from the levels of the works as shown on Drawing No. 30400.

4. The works shall be completed within a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Order.

5. The Board shall take such steps (if any) as may be necessary in the course of the works for the protection of the public.

6. The Board may cause such public or private roads, highways, streets and footpaths, as shall be in or near the intended situation of the works, to be temporarily opened up, broken up or stopped up as it shall think necessary or convenient for making or completing the works or in connection with the works or any of them, or the operations and conveniences connected therewith or for any of the purposes of its undertaking, provided that the Board, prior to the opening up, breaking up or stopping up or otherwise interfering with the same, makes and provides in lieu of such roads, highways, streets and footpaths good and sufficient means of passing and repassing or conducting traffic by roads, highways, streets, and footpaths as convenient in all respects as the public and private roads, highways, streets and footpaths to be temporarily opened up, broken up or stopped up and that, on the completion of the works, the Board does restore, to the satisfaction of the road authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946)), any road, highway, street or footpath opened up, broken up, stopped up or otherwise interfered with under this Order.

7. The Board may also cause the subsoil under public or private roads, highways, streets and footpaths and any railway-sidings, tunnels, streams, watercourses, sewers, drains, pipes, hydrants, gas mains, electric cables, wires and apparatus as shall be in or near the intended situation of the works to be either temporarily or permanently opened up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with as it shall think necessary or convenient for making and completing the works or in connection with the works or any of them or the operations or conveniences connected therewith or for any of the purposes of its undertaking, provided that the Board does prior to opening up or otherwise interfering with the same make, in consultation with the road authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1946 ), all necessary arrangements to ensure the safety and stability of any road, highway, street or footpath the subsoil under which is opened up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with under this Order and provide in lieu of such railway-sidings, tunnels, streams, watercourses, sewers, drains, pipes, hydrants, gas mains, electric cables, wires or apparatus, good and sufficient means of passing and repassing or conducting traffic by railways or sidings and good and sufficient means for conveying off the water and sewage from the adjoining or neighbouring lands and premises affected and sufficient alternative gas mains, electric cables, wires or other apparatus for such purposes as the electric cables, wires and other apparatus so to be altered or interfered with are accustomed to serve as convenient in all respects as the tunnels, streams, watercourses, railway-sidings, sewers, drains, pipes, hydrants, gas mains, electric cables, wires and apparatus to be opened up, broken up, crossed, altered, extended, diverted or otherwise interfered with as aforesaid.

8. The Board shall not be authorised by virtue of this Order to interfere with any work under the control of any of the following bodies, that is to say, the Electricity Supply Board, Córas Iompair Éireann, Iarnród Éireann--Irish Rail, Bord Telecom Éireann, Dublin Corporation or the New Dublin Gas Company without having obtained the previous consent in writing of such bodies or of the Minister who, before giving such consent, shall consult with such body and consider any representations which such body shall make to him.

9. Subject as aforesaid in case of any dispute or difference between the Board and any person or body aggrieved by anything done or omitted to be done by the Board in exercise of its powers under this Order every such dispute or difference shall be referred, with full power to award costs, to the final decision of two arbitrators, one chosen by each party, and, if the arbitrators disagree, of an umpire chosen by the arbitrators before they sit, or in the event of disagreement, by the President for the time being of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, and shall be deemed to have been so referred in pursuance of a submission by deed executed by the parties and the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1954 (No. 26 of 1954), shall apply to an arbitration under this Article.

10. Nothing in this Order shall affect any right of the State to or over foreshore or any lands which have at any time been foreshore.

11. Save as in this Order otherwise expressly provided nothing in this Order contained shall take away, lessen, prejudice, alter or affect any of the duties, rights, privileges, property, power and authority of the Electricity Supply Board, Córas Iompair Éireann, Iarnród Éireann--Irish Rail, Bord Telecom Éireann, Dublin Corporation or the New Dublin Gas Company.

12. All costs, charges, fees and expenses of or incidental to preparing and obtaining this Order or otherwise incurred in relation thereto shall be paid by the Board out of its funds.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th day of February, 1988.

BRENDAN DALY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises Dublin Port and Docks Board to construct a quay wall/retaining walls/embankments and reclaim approximately 2.25 hectares within Alexandra Basin at Dublin Port.