S.I. No. 58/1964 - Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964.


S.I. No. 58 of 1964.

ROAD TRAFFIC (COMPULSORY INSURANCE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1964.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5, paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 62 and paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 63 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby makes the following Regulations :—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 18th day of March, 1964.

(3) The Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 14 of 1962 ) and these Regulations shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations, 1962 and 1964.

2. The First Schedule to the Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations, 1962, is hereby amended by the substitution in paragraph (2) for sub-paragraphs (f) and (g) of the following sub-paragraphs :—

"(f) by limiting the cover to cases where the person driving a vehicle either holds a driving licence to drive the vehicle or holds a provisional licence to drive the vehicle or having held either such licence or a driving licence issued under Part III of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 to drive such a vehicle has not been disqualified for holding it under section 26, 27 or 28 of the Act or under a disqualification order which is deemed to be a consequential disqualification order, an ancillary disqualification order or a special disqualification order by virtue of section 43 of the Act,

(g) by limiting the cover to cases where the person driving a vehicle holds a licence to drive a licensed public hire vehicle under article 34 or article 62 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 191 of 1963 ) or having held such a licence or a licence to drive a public service vehicle under the Road Traffic Act, 1933 has not ceased to do so by reason of such licence being revoked under those Regulations or suspended or revoked under that Act."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Thirteenth day of March, 1964.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend the Road Traffic (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations, 1962, by substituting two clauses in the list of limiting conditions which may be inserted in an approved policy of insurance or an approved guarantee. The changes are consequential on the coming into operation of Part III of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , and the making thereunder of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations, 1964 ( S.I. No. 29 of 1964 ).