S.I. No. 193/1963 - Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order, 1963.

1. The lights referred to in the Convention of 1949 shall be carried duly lit and in an efficient condition in the same circumstances as the corresponding obligatory lighting under the Road Traffic (Lighting of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 would be required to be carried duly lit.

2. A vehicle (and any trailer attached thereto) shall not show a red light or a red reflector to the front or a white reflector or (save where the showing of such a light would be lawful under the Road Traffic (Lighting of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963) a white light to the rear.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government

this twelfth day of October, 1963.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order provides for certain amendments to the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (International Circulation) Order, 1961 (

S.I. No. 269 of 1961

) consequential on the coming into operation of

sections 11

,

12

and

82

of the

Road Traffic Act, 1961

and the regulations thereunder, and the repeal of corresponding provisions of and under the

Road Traffic Act, 1933

. It substitutes references to the new regulations for references to the provisions which they replace.

3. Article 11 of the Principal Order shall be amended by the substitution therefor of the following article:—

"11. (1) Article 5 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 (

S.I. No. 191 of 1963

) shall not apply to a vehicle brought into the State temporarily by a visitor if the vehicle is licensed in the state in which it is registered under the licensing requirements (if any) of that state corresponding to those of Part III of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963.

(2) Sub-article (5) of article 62 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 shall not apply to a visitor in respect of his employment as driver of a vehicle to which sub-article (1) of this article applies if such person is licensed as such in the state in which he is ordinarily resident under the special licensing requirements (if any) of that state governing the driving of vehicles used for the carriage of passengers for reward".

4. Article 12 of the Principal Order shall be amended by the deletion from sub-articles (1) and (2) of the words "Act of 1933 and the Orders and ".

5. The First Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the substitution therefor of the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE.

PART I

Provisions which are not to apply to a vehicle registered in a state which is a party to the Convention of 1926

S.I. No. 193 of 1963.

MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VEHICLES (INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1963.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

section 38

of the

Local Government Act, 1955

(No. 9 of 1955) hereby makes the following Regulations and Order:—

l.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order, 1963.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1963.

(3) The Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (International Circulation) Orders, 1961 and 1962 and this Order shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (International Circulation) Orders, 1961 to 1963.