S.I. No. 94/1933 - The Road Traffic Act, 1933 (Date of Commencement) No. 1 Order, 1933.

1. This Order may be cited as " The

Road Traffic Act, 1933

(Date of Commencement) No. 1 Order, 1933.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1923

, shall apply to the interpretation of this Order in the same manner in which it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The portions of the Act mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order shall for all purposes come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1933.

4. Sub-section (1) of section 13 shall come into operation on the said 1st day of September, 1933, for the purpose only of effecting the repeal of the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order, being enactments (or portions of enactments) mentioned in the Schedule to the Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PORTIONS OF THE ACT BROUGHT INTO OPERATION.

Sections 1 to 9.

Sub-sections (1) to (5) of Section 10.

Sections 11 and 12.

Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 13.

Sections 154 to 160 inclusive.

Part XI.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ENACTMENTS TO BE REPEALED.

Session and Chapter

Short Title

Extent of Repeal

24 & 25 Vic., c. 70.

The Locomotive Act, 1861.

Sections 6 and 7.

59 & 60 Vic., c. 36.

The Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896.

Section 5.

61 & 62 Vic., c. 29.

The Locomotives Act, 1898.

Section 4.

10 & 11 Geo. V., c. 72.

The Roads Act, 1920.

Sub-section (4) of Section 7 and Second Schedule.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, this 18th day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three.

(Signed) SEÁN T. O'CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 94.

THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1933 (DATE OF COMMENCEMENT) No. 1 ORDER, 1933.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

WHEREAS by

section 2

of the

Road Traffic Act, 1933

(in this Order referred to as " the Act "), it is enacted that the Act shall come into operation on such day or days as may be fixed therefor by any order or orders of the Minister either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions of this Act

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers so conferred on him, hereby orders as follows :—