S.I. No. 385/2006 - Road Traffic Act 2006 (Mobile Phones-Prescribed Numbers) Regulations 2006

1. These Regulations may be cited as the

Road Traffic Act 2006

(Mobile Phones - Prescribed Numbers Regulations 2006.

2. The numbers prescribed for the purposes of section 3(7)(a) of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

(No. 23 of 2006) are 999 and 112.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

18 July 2006.

Martin Cullen

Minister for Transport.

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

Section 3

of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

provides that it is a defence for a person charged with the offence of driving while using a mobile phone to show that he/she was using the phone to call the Gardaí, an ambulance a fire or other emergency service on numbers prescribed for such a service. This Regulation prescribes 999 and 112 as the emergency numbers.

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No. 385 of 2006

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2006 (MOBILE PHONES-PRESCRIBED NUMBERS) REGULATIONS 2006

I, Martin Cullen, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3(7)(a) of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

(No. 23 of 2006) and section 5(1) of the

Road Traffic Act 1961

(No. 24 of 1961) hereby make the following regulations