S.I. No. 527/2007 - Road Traffic (Recognition of foreign Driving Licences) Order 2007

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Recognition of Foreign Driving Licences) Order 2007.

2. (1) It is declared that a licence or permit permitting a person to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle, not being a licence or permit issued to a person to enable that person to learn or provisionally to drive such a vehicle, issued by the competent authority of a Member State (other than the State) or another state mentioned in the Schedule is recognised for the purpose of exchange of that licence or permit for a driving licence, in respect of any one or more of the categories in respect of which the licence or permit is held that corresponds to a category mentioned in the Table to Regulation 6 of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 (

S.I. No. 537 of 2006

), subject to Commission Decision No. 2000/275 of 21 March 2000

1

.

(2) This Order does not apply to a licence or permit issued by another Member State or a state mentioned in the Schedule which was issued in exchange for a licence or permit issued by a state, other than the State, which is not another Member State or a state mentioned in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Other states

State

Australia

Gibraltar

Guernsey

Iceland

Isle of Man

Japan

Jersey

Liechtenstein

Norway

South Africa

South Korea

Switzerland

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

18 July 2007.

NOEL DEMPSEY.

Minister for Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

This order recognises certain foreign driving licences for driving licence exchange purposes under section 23A of the

Road Traffic Act 1961

(inserted by

section 8

of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

).

1 OJ L91, 12.04.2000, p.1

S.I. No. 527 of 2007

ROAD TRAFFIC (RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DRIVING LICENCES) ORDER 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

24

th July

, 2007.

I, NOEL DEMPSEY, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 23A (inserted by

section 8

of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

(No. 23 of 2006)) of the

Road Traffic Act 1961

(No. 24 of 1961),

section 2

of the

Road Traffic Act 2006

and the National Roads and Road Traffic (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 (

S.I. No. 298 of 2002

) (as adapted by the Public Enterprise (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 (

S.I. No. 305 of 2002

)), hereby order as follows—