Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023

/static/images/base/harp.jpg


Number 16 of 2023


ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS ACT 2023


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, commencement, collective citations and construction

2. Interpretation

PART 2

Construction of references to Driving Licence categories

3. Driving Licence Categories

PART 3

Information to be provided with application for Vehicle Licence

4. Amendment of Roads Act 1920

PART 4

Amendment of Act of 1961

5. Amendment of Act of 1961

PART 5

Driving instruction

6. Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1968

PART 6

Amendment of Act of 1975

7. Fixed charge offences

8. Insertion of new sections 3A to 3H in Act of 1975

9. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 1975

10. Amendment of section 5 of Act of 1975

PART 7

Amendment of Act of 1994

11. Amendment of Act of 1994

PART 8

Amendment of Act of 2002

12. Amendment of Act of 2002

PART 9

Amendment of Act of 2010

13. Amendment of Act of 2010

PART 10

Amendment of Act of 2014

14. Amendment of Act of 2014

PART 11

Amendment of Act of 2016

15. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 2016

PART 12

Powered personal transporters and pedal cycles

16. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1961

17. Amendment of section 14 of Act of 1961

18. Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1961

19. Amendment of section 47 of Act of 1961

20. Amendment of section 48 of Act of 1961

21. Amendment of section 54 of Act of 1961

22. Amendment of section 99 of Act of 1961

23. Driver of powered personal transporter holding on to other vehicle

24. Amendment of section 107 of Act of 1961

25. Amendment of section 108 of Act of 1961

26. Amendment of section 110 of Act of 1961

27. Amendment of section 112 of Act of 1961

28. Amendment of section 113 of Act of 1961

29. Amendment of Second Schedule to Act of 1961

30. Amendment of section 35 of Act of 1994

31. Amendment of section 38 of Act of 1994

32. Amendment of section 41 of Act of 1994

33. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 2004

34. Amendment of section 3 of Road Traffic Act 2006

35. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 2010

36. Amendment of section 130 of Finance Act 1992

37. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1993 - personal powered transporter

38. Amendment of section 43 of Act of 1993

39. Amendment of section 44 of Act of 1993

40. Amendment of section 57 of Act of 1993

41. Amendment of section 68 of Act of 1993

PART 13

Roads and public transport infrastructure

42. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1993

43. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1993

44. Amendment of section 19 of Act of 1993

45. Power of An Bord Pleanála to approve scheme or proposed road development that contravenes materially any plan

46. Use of cameras on roads to obtain data

47. Amendment of section 44 of Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008

PART 14

Management of certain roads and speed limits

48. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1993 - national managed road

49. National managed road

50. Amendment of section 47 of Act of 1961

51. Amendment of section 95 of Act of 1961

52. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2004

53. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2004

54. Special speed limits on national managed roads

55. Speed limits at road works on roads other than national managed roads

56. Amendment of Act of 2004 in relation to national managed roads

PART 15

Amendment of Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952

57. Amendment of Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952

PART 16

Miscellaneous

58. Functions of Minister in relation to zero to low emission vehicles

59. Effect and validity of certain regulations


Acts Referred to

Air Navigation and Transport Act 1973 (No. 29)

Air Navigation and Transport Act 1975 (No. 9)

Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (No. 22)

Children Act 2001 (No. 24)

Courts (No. 3) Act 1986 (No. 33)

Criminal Damage Act 1991 (No. 31)

Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 (No. 2)

Criminal Justice (Safety of United Nations Workers) Act 2000 (No. 16)

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 (No. 2)

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 (No. 50)

Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Act 2000 (No. 11)

Criminal Justice Act 2006 (No. 26)

Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 (No. 8)

Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976 (No. 14)

Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990 (No. 32)

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 (No. 20)

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 (No. 15)

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 (No. 2)

Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 69)

Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7)

Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 (No. 15)

European Communities Act 2007 (No. 18)

Explosive Substances Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict., c. 3)

Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 (No. 24)

Finance Act 1976 (No. 16)

Finance Act 1992 (No. 9)

Finance Act 1993 (No. 13)

Firearms Act 1925 (No. 17)

Firearms Act 1964 (No. 1)

Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990 (No. 12)

Garda Síochána Act 2005 (No. 20)

Geneva Conventions Act 1962 (No. 11)

Immigration Act 1999 (No. 22)

International Criminal Court Act 2006 (No. 30)

International Protection Act 2015 (No. 66)

Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975 (No. 14)

Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Acts 1975 and 1987

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Maritime Security Act 2004 (No. 29)

Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 (No. 26)

Offences Against the State Act 1939 (No. 13)

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c. 93)

Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 (No. 19)

Punishment of Incest Act 1908 (8 Edw., 7 c. 45)

Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012 (No. 16)

Road Traffic Act 1961 (No. 24)

Road Traffic Act 1968 (No. 25)

Road Traffic Act 1994 (No. 7)

Road Traffic Act 2002 (No. 12)

Road Traffic Act 2004 (No. 44)

Road Traffic Act 2006 (No. 23)

Road Traffic Act 2010 (No. 25)

Road Traffic Act 2014 (No. 3)

Road Traffic Act 2016 (No. 21)

Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010

Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2011

Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2016

Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2018

Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006 (No. 28)

Roads Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72)

Roads Act 1993 (No. 14)

Roads Acts 1993 to 2015

Sexual Offences (Jurisdiction) Act 1996 (No. 38)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Taxi Regulation Acts 2013 and 2016

/static/images/base/harp.jpg


Number 16 of 2023


ROAD TRAFFIC AND ROADS ACT 2023


An Act to confer functions on the Minister for Transport in relation to zero to low emission vehicles and recharging and refuelling infrastructure relating to such vehicles; to amend and extend the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2018; to amend the Roads Act 1920 , the Finance Act 1992 , the Roads Act 1993 , the Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975 and the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 ; to provide for the effect and validity of certain regulations; and to provide for related matters.

[23rd June, 2023]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: