No. 19/1958:

TRANSPORT ACT, 1958

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL

1 Short title.

2 Definitions.

3 Saving for rights of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.

4 Laying of orders before Houses of the Oireachtas.

5 Expenses.

6 Repeals.

PART II GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD

7 General duties of the Board.

8 Terms and conditions of carriage.

9 Level crossings.

PART III FINANCE

10 Grants to Board.

11 C.I.E. 3% Transport Stock, 1955-60, to be a Government loan.

12 Release of Board from liability to repay advances of £5,623,400 for transport stock interest and temporary borrowing.

13 Repayable advances of £1,000,000 for capital expenditure to be treated as non-repayable grant.

14 Compensation of employees whose services are dispensed with or conditions worsened.

15 Grants in respect of compensation.

16 Restrictions of existing compensation provisions.

17 Returns in relation to compensation.

18 Amendment of section 44 of Act of 1950.

PART IV CESSER OF TRAIN SERVICES AND CLOSING OF RAILWAYS AND CANALS

19 Termination of train services.

20 Abandonment of railway lines of Board.

21 Abandonment of railway lines of other railway companies.

22 Sale of land of abandoned railway line to public body.

23 Closing of canal.

PART V ROAD TRANSPORT

24 Exemption of Board from requirement of passenger licences.

25 Restriction on initiation and alteration of passenger road services.

26 Relief from obligation to carry vehicle plate.

27 Carriage of livestock from neighbouring farmers.

28 Illegal haulage: second and subsequent offences.

29 Importation of unladen lorries and tractors.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION IN RELATION TO TRANSPORT.

[16th July, 1958]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—