Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023

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Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1993

43. The Act of 1993 is amended in section 13—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7):

“(7A) Without prejudice to the generality of this section and save as otherwise provided by law, a road authority may carry out works to reduce, increase or modify—

(a) any lane, footpath, carriageway, pavement or footway, within an existing road,

(b) any median, island, pedestrian refuge, or verge, forming part of the road,

(c) any structure forming part of the road, and

(d) any land or substratum of land on which any of the foregoing is situated.”,

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (8):

“(8) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (7) and save as otherwise provided by law, a road authority may—

(a) provide any amenity, structure, infrastructure or thing on, in, under or over a road for the benefit, utility, safety or convenience of road users,

(b) undertake landscaping, planting or any similar activity on, in, under or over a road in the interests of amenity and the environment,

(c) provide artistic features,

(d) undertake works on, in, under or over a road to install, re-lay, relocate, divert, remove or replace any wire, pipe, drain, duct, cable or other similar infrastructure,

(e) provide any structure or infrastructure on, in, under or over a road for, or in connection with—

(i) the charging of electric vehicles,

(ii) the provision of information to road users, or

(iii) the transmission of information to vehicles being used on a road.”,

and

(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (10):

“(11) Subsection (10) shall not apply to the National Transport Authority when, in the performance of a function in accordance with subsection (2)(b) or (5)(a) of section 44 of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 , it is exercising the powers of a road authority.”.