Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1949

Bye-laws as to roads crossing or near land used for military purposes.

11.—(1) The Minister may, in respect of any particular portion of a road which crosses or runs near to any land (other than the Curragh of Kildare) used for the purposes of the Defence Forces, make, with the consent of the road authority charged with the maintenance of that portion, bye-laws providing for the restriction, by such means as the Minister thinks proper and specifies in the bye-laws, of the use thereof.

(2) The consent of a road authority under this section shall—

(a) in case the road authority is the corporation of a county borough, be a reserved function for the purposes of the enactments relating to that corporation,

(b) in any other case, be a reserved function for the purposes of the County Management Acts, 1940 and 1942.

(3) In this section, the expression “road authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946).