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7 1994

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1994

PART I

Preliminary and General

Short title, commencement, construction and collective citation.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Act, 1994.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as, by order or orders made by the Minister under this section, may be fixed therefor either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions, including the application of section 4 to different Acts specified therein and to different provisions of those Acts.

(3) The Principal Act, the Act of 1968, the Act of 1984 and the Act of 1987 (in so far as it amends those Acts), shall be construed as one with this Act and may be cited together therewith as the Road Traffic Acts, 1961 to 1994.

Interpretation.

2. —(1) In this Act, save where the context otherwise requires—

the Act of 1968” means the Road Traffic Act, 1968 ;

the Act of 1978” means the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 1978 ;

the Act of 1984” means the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 1984 ;

the Act of 1987” means the Dublin Transport Authority (Dissolution) Act, 1987 ;

the Act of 1993” means the Roads Act, 1993 ;

licensing authority” means the council of a county or the corporation of a county borough;

prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act;

the Principal Act” means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 ;

reserved function” means—

(a) in the case of the council of a county or an elective body for the purposes of the County Management Acts, 1940 to 1991, a reserved function for the purposes of those Acts, and

(b) in the case of the corporation of a county borough, a reserved function for the purposes of the Acts relating to the management of the county borough.

(2) In this Act—

(a) a reference to a Part, section or Schedule is to a Part, section or Schedule of this Act, unless it is indicated that reference to some other enactment is intended,

(b) a reference to a subsection, paragraph or subparagraph is to the subsection, paragraph or subparagraph of the provision in which the reference occurs, unless it is indicated that reference to some other provision is intended, and

(c) a reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, adapted or extended by or under any subsequent enactment including this Act.

Regulations.

3. —(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of giving full effect to this Act and such regulations may contain such incidental, supplementary, consequential and transitional provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(2) Regulations made under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after they are made and, if a resolution annulling the regulations is passed by either such House within the next subsequent 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulations are laid before it, the regulations shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

Repeals.

4. —(1) Sections 89, 90, 101 (8), 101A (inserted by the Act of 1987) and 115 (7) of the Principal Act, section 60 of the Act of 1968 and the Act of 1978 are hereby repealed.

(2) Regulations, bye-laws and temporary rules made under a provision or enactment referred to in subsection (1) and in force immediately before the commencement of this section shall continue in force and be deemed to be regulations or, as the case may be, bye-laws made under the corresponding provision of this Act, and they shall be capable of being amended or revoked accordingly, and documents issued under or in accordance with any regulations, bye-laws or temporary rules as aforesaid and in force immediately before such commencement shall continue in force for the purposes of this Act.