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Regulations in relation to conduct of passengers, drivers, and conductors.
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123.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for regulating and controlling the conduct of passengers in public service vehicles and of drivers, conductors, and other persons employed in or about such vehicles, and different such regulations may be so made in respect of different classes of such vehicles, and the carriage of merchandise, parcels, passengers' luggage, and animals in or on such vehicles.
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(2) Regulations made under this section may confer on the conductor or, where there is no conductor, the driver of a large public service vehicle power in specified circumstances or for specified reasons to exclude or remove from such vehicle particular persons, merchandise, parcels, luggage, and animals or any of them and for that purpose to use such force as may be necessary.
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(3) Every person who does any act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of a regulation made under this section and applicable to him shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(4) The conductor or (where there is no conductor) the driver of a public service vehicle or any member of the Gárda Síochána on the request of such conductor or such driver may remove (using such force as may be necessary) from such public service vehicle any person who has done in such vehicle an act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of a regulation made under this section and for the time being in force.
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(5) Where the conductor or (if there is no conductor) the driver of a public service vehicle or a member of the Gárda Síochána alleges that such passenger has done in such vehicle an act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of a regulation made under this section and demands of such passenger his name and address, it shall be the duty of such passenger to give to such conductor, driver, or member his name and address, and if such passenger fails or neglects so to do or gives a name and address which is false or misleading he shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(6) The Minister shall not make regulations under this section in relation to large public service vehicles without previous consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce.
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(7) 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 laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.
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