16/05/1925: Motor Car (International Circulation) Order, 1910.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

MOTOR CAR (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) ORDER, 1910.

To the Royal Irish Automobile Club, Dawson Street, Dublin, to the Automobile Association, Suffolk Street, Dublin, and to all others whom it may concern:

WHEREAS by sub-division (1) of Article 1 of the Motor Car (International Circulation) Order, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as "the Order"), as modified in its application to Ireland by Article VII thereof, and as adapted by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , it is provided that the Minister for Local Government and Public Health (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") should be the competent authority, and the said Minister is empowered to carry out in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of the Order, the following duties, that is to say:—

(a) to examine any motor car registered in any part of Saorstát Éireann under the provisions of the Motor Car Act, 1903, which is submitted for examination and, if satisfied, after such examination—

(i) that the motor car is suitable for use on the highway in a foreign country, and that it fulfils the conditions specified in sub-divisions (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Article 1 of the First Schedule to the Order, or in the case of a motor cycle, the same conditions as modified by the paragraph numbered (1) in Article 6 of that Schedule; or

(ii) that the motor car is of a type which is suitable for the purpose aforesaid, and which complies with the specified conditions,

to issue a Certificate of Fitness in the Form A in the Second Schedule to the Order or in a form to the like effect.

(b) to examine any person submitting himself for examination, and, if upon examination he is found to be competent, to issue to him a Driver's Certificate of Competence in the Form B in the Second Schedule to the Order, or in a form to the like effect; Provided that a Certificate of Competence shall not be granted to any person who is under eighteen years of age or who does not hold a licence to drive issued in pursuance of the Motor Car Act, 1903:

(c) to issue, subject to the conditions of Article 11 of the Order, to the owner of any motor car registered as aforesaid, an International Travelling Pass under the Seal of the Minister:

(d) to prescribe the type or types of motor cars which are suitable for the purpose aforesaid and which comply with the specified conditions.

AND WHEREAS sub-division (2) of Article 1 of the Order, modified and adapted as aforesaid, empowers the Minister, under such conditions as he thinks fit, to authorise by Order one or more Associations to perform all or any of the duties specified in sub-division (1) of that Article:

NOW THEREFORE, in pursuance of the powers given to me in that behalf and subject to any order which I may issue hereafter I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health do hereby order and declare as follows, that is to say:—

1. This Order may be referred to as the International Circulation of Motor Cars (Outgoing Cars) Order, 1925.

2. The Royal Irish Automobile Club, Dawson Street, Dublin, and the Automobile Association, Suffolk Street, Dublin, are hereby authorised to perform all the duties specified in the hereinbefore recited sub-division (1) of Article I of the Order.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this Sixteenth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five.

(Signed) SÉAMUS DE BÚRCA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.