Road Traffic Act, 1961
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Prevention of obstruction of traffic by fairs and markets. |
92.—(1) Where any fair or market is held in any public place within the functional area of the corporation of a county or other borough, the council of a county or an urban district or the commissioners of a town, the corporation, council or commissioners may make such bye-laws as they consider necessary for securing the free passage of vehicular traffic through public roads on the occasion of fairs or markets. | |
(2) Sections 219 to 223 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , shall apply to bye-laws under this section in like manner as they apply to bye-laws under that Act, subject to the modification that references therein to a sanitary authority shall be construed as references to the corporation of a county or other borough, the council of a county or an urban district, or the commissioners of a town, as the case may require. | ||
(3) A person who contravenes a bye-law under this section shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(4) Where a county includes any borough, urban district or town, the functional area of the council of the county shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed not to include the borough, urban district or town. |