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S.I. No. 75/2012 - Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limits - Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limits — Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
(2) The Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limit - Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc.) Regulations 2008 and these Regulations may be cited together as the Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limit - Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicle, Etc.) Regulations 2008 and 2012.
2. These Regulations come into operation on 1 April 2012.
3. In these Regulations—
“category N2” has the meaning assigned to it in Annex II of the Framework Directive;
“category N3” has the meaning assigned to it in Annex II of the Framework Directive;
“category O3” has the meaning assigned to it in Annex II of the Framework Directive;
“category O4” has the meaning assigned to it in Annex II of the Framework Directive;
“Framework Directive” means: Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007
1
, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2008 of 7 October 2008
2
, Regulation (EC) No. 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009
3
, Regulation (EC) No. 79/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009
4
, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 385/2009 of 7 May 2009
5
, Regulation (EC) No. 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009
6
, Regulation (EC) No. 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009
7
, Commission Directive 2010/19/EU of 9 March 2010
8
, Commission Regulation (EU) No 371/2010 of 16 April 2010
9
, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 183/2011 of 22 February 2011
10
, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 582/2011 of 25 May 2011
11
and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 678/2011 of 14 July 2011
12
.
4. The Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limits — Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc.) Regulations (
S.I. No. 546 of 2008
) are amended by substituting for Regulation 4 the following
“ 4.(
a
) The ordinary speed limit prescribed for a Category N2 or N3 vehicle and a combination of a Category N2 or N3 vehicle when drawing a Category O3 or O4 trailer and when driven on—
(i) a motorway, is 90 kilometres per hour, or
(ii) any other public road, is 80 kilometres per hour.
(
b
) the ordinary speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour is prescribed in respect of all public roads for a combination of a mechanically propelled vehicle drawing another vehicle except for any combination of vehicles to which paragraph (
a
) refers.”
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
9 March 2012.
LEO VARADKAR,
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)
These Regulations amend the Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limit Buses Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc.) Regulations 2008 (
S.I. No. 546 of 2008
) for the purposes of
• Increasing the ordinary speed limit prescribed for Heavy Goods Vehicles from 80 kilometres per hour to 90 kilometres per hour, when driven on a motorway.
1 OJ No. L 263, 9.10.2007, p. 1.
2 OJ No. L 292, 31.10.2008, p. 1.
3 OJ No. L 35, 4.2.2009, p. 1.
4 OJ No. L 35, 4.2.2009, p. 32.
5 OJ No. L 118, 13.5.2009, p. 13.
6 OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 1.
7 OJ No. L 200, 31.7.2009, p. 1.
8 OJ No. L 72, 20.3.2010, p. 17.
9 OJ No. L 110, 1.5.2010, p. 1.
10 OJ No. L 53, 26.2.2011, p. 4.
11 OJ No. L 167, 25.6.2011, p. 1.
12 OJ No. L 185, 15.7.2011, p. 30.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
16
th March
, 2012.
I, LEO VARADKAR, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
sections 3
and
4
of the
Road Traffic Act 2004
(No. 44 of 2004), 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 Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (
S.I. No. 141 of 2011
)), hereby make the following regulations