Road Traffic Act, 1933

Regulations in relation to driving licences.

43.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the granting of driving licences by licensing authorities;

(b) the registers to be kept by licensing: authorities of grants of driving licences;

(c) the issue by licensing authorities of duplicate licences in place of driving licences lost, destroyed, or mutilated;

(d) the communication of particulars of driving licences granted by licensing authorities to other licensing authorities;

(e) the making available for the use of members of the Gárda Síochána and other persons of information in the possession of licensing authorities with respect to persons disqualified for holding driving licences and persons whose driving licences have been endorsed under this Part of this Act;

(f) the prevention of the issue (otherwise than by way of renewal) of a driving licence to a person who holds a driving licence.

(2) Every licensing authority shall comply with all regulations made under this section and for the time being in force.

(3) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after such regulation is so laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.