S.I. No. 173/1961 - Road Traffic Act, 1961 (Commencement) Order, 1961.

S.I. No. 173 of 1961.

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1961 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby orders as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (Commencement) Order, 1961.

2. Section 10 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1961 for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the enactments specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order.

3. The provisions of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1961.

SCHEDULE

PART I

Provisions of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 to come into operation on 1st October, 1961.

Sections 1 to 9, sections 17 to 20, sections 26 and 29, subsections (2), (5) and (6) of section 43, Part V, sections 84 to 92, sections 94 to 117, sections 120 to 127 and the Second Schedule.

PART II

Enactments to be repealed on 1st October, 1961

Session and chapter or number and year	Short title	Extent of repeal
1 & 2 Geo. C., c.45	Public Roads (Ireland) Act, 1911	The whole Act.
No. 11 of 1933	Road Traffic Act, 1933	Sections 7 to 10, 29 and 30, 50 to 52, 98, 118, 119, 127, 137, 138, 147 to 157, 159, 165, 167, 169 to 171,173, 175, 179.
No. 7 of 1940	Fire Brigades Act, 1940	Section 10
No. 24 of 1946	Local Government Act, 1946	Section 69
No. 9 of 1955	Local Government Act, 1955	Sections 36 and 37
No. 3 of 1956	Fatal Injuries Act, 1956	Section 7

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this fifteenth day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into operation certain provisions of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and repeals corresponding provisions of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933) on 1st October, 1961.