S.I. No. 173/1961 - Road Traffic Act, 1961 (Commencement) Order, 1961.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
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Enactments to be repealed on 1st October, 1961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.
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:—