International Carriage of Goods by Road Act, 1990

CMR to have force of law in State.

2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, CMR shall have the force of law in the State and judicial notice shall be taken of it.

(2) (a) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by order declare that—

(i) any state specified in the order is a Contracting Party, or

(ii) a declaration (the text of which shall be set out in the order) has been made pursuant to Article 46 of CMR to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(b) An order that is in force under this subsection shall be evidence—

(i) as respects any declaration under paragraph (a) (i) therein, that any state specified therein is a Contracting Party, and

(ii) as respects any declaration under paragraph (a) (ii) therein, that the declaration pursuant to Article 46 of CMR to which it relates was made and of its contents.

(c) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by order amend or revoke an order under this subsection including an order under this paragraph and the reference in paragraph (b) to an order in force shall, as respects such an order that is amended by an order in force under this paragraph, be construed as a reference to the first-mentioned order as so amended.

(3) An order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made.