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S.I. No. 110/1972 - Galway Traffic and Parking Temporary Rules, 1972.
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
1. Rule 5 provides that vehicles may in certain circumstances be parked in prohibited places.
2. Rule 6 provides that the parking of vehicles on public roads shall be in accordance with any prohibition, restriction or requirement indicated by means of a traffic sign erected at that place.
3. Rule 8 provides that a vehicle will not be parked within fifteen feet of a street junction.
4. Rule 10 provides that the requirements of a traffic sign prohibiting traffic from going in a particular direction will be complied with.
5. These rules operate in lieu of the Galway Traffic and Parking Bye-Laws, 1964 (
S.I. No. 235 of 1964
) in so far as the rules affect the said bye-laws.
6. Parking of vehicles on public roads shall be in accordance with any prohibition, restriction or requirement indicated by means of a traffic sign, except as otherwise provided by these rules.
7. Where on a public road parking is permitted or restricted by means of a traffic sign, a vehicle may be parked only if it complies with the following conditions—
(
a
) that it is not offered for sale, hire, as a prize or in connection with the sale of tickets, goods or any service,
(
b
) that no overhaul or repair is effected to it,
(
c
) that no unnecessary noise is made by it or by anything carried in or on or attached or connected to it,
(
d
) that it is not drawing another vehicle,
(
e
) that it has not seating passenger accommodation for more than 12 people other than the driver.
8. (1) Notwithstanding an indication by means of a traffic sign a vehicle shall not be parked on a public road in any of the following places—
(
a
) the roadway at a road junction together with the roadway within fifteen feet of the junction,
(
b
) a stretch of roadway having less than three traffic lanes and having along its centre an authorised continuous white line or more than one such line.
(2) The prohibitions on parking imposed by this rule do not apply to a pedal cycle or to a motor cycle without a side-car.
9. (1) This rule applies to a place on a public road or part of a public road on which parking is restricted to one hour or more during business hours by means of a traffic sign.
(2) A vehicle which was parked and had left the place in the street where it had been parked shall not be parked again in that street within one hour of the time when it left.
10. Where a traffic sign specifies the course to be taken by traffic in a street or prohibits entry into a street by a particular direction, the requirements of that sign shall be complied with.
GIVEN under my hand this 30th day of March, 1972.
MICHAEL J. WYMES,
Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.
The Minister for Local Government hereby consents to the making of the foregoing temporary rules.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government, this 21st day of April, 1972.
ROBERT MOLLOY,
Aire Rialtais Áitiúil.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
S.I. No. 110 of 1972.
GALWAY TRAFFIC AND PARKING TEMPORARY RULES, 1972.
I, MICHAEL J. WYMES, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
sections 89
and
90
of the
Road Traffic Act, 1961
(No. 24 of 1961) (as amended by
section 6
of the
Road Traffic Act, 1968
(No. 25 of 1968)), and with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, hereby make the following temporary rules in respect of the area comprising the borough of Galway