No. 330/1938:

MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VEHICLES (CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND USE) ORDER, 1938.

MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VEHICLES (CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND USE) ORDER, 1938.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1933 .

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Road Traffic Act, 1933 , and in particular by sections 15 and 17 of the said Act, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say :—

1.—These Regulations may be cited as the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (Construction, Equipment and Use) Order, 1938.

2.—In these regulations the expression "the Principal Order" means the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (Construction, Equipment and Use) Order, 1934.

3.—These regulations and the Principal Order shall be read as one order and may be collectively cited as the Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (Construction, Equipment and Use) Orders, 1934 and 1938.

4.—Article 8 of the Principal Order shall be amended by substituting for the figures " 1939 ", the figures " 1940."

5.—Where an articulated vehicle is constructed and normally used for the carriage of an article which exceeds 25 feet in length and which cannot without undue expenses or risk of damage be divided into two or more parts for conveyance by road, or for the carriage of a number of such articles, the overall length of such articulated vehicle may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 10 of the Principal Order, exceed 33 feet.

6.—Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 46 of the Principal Order, the overall length of a trailer which is constructed and normally used for the carriage of an article which exceeds twenty feet in length and which cannot without undue expense or risk of damage be divided into two or more parts for conveyance by road, or for the carriage of a number of such articles, may exceed 22 feet.

7.—(1) Where a public authority, company or other person is concerned with public transport, lighting, water supply, communications or some other similar public service and the Commissioner is of opinion that the driving on roads of vehicles belonging to such public authority, company or other person which contravene one or more of the regulations made by the Principal Order is likely to be urgently necessary for the more efficient carrying on of such public service, the Commissioner, may, to such extent as he thinks necessary in the circumstances, exempt such public authority, company or person from full compliance with Article 78 of the Principal Order.

(2) The Commissioner shall with all convenient speed notify to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health the granting of an exemption under this Article and of the extent of such exemption.

(3) Where a person to whom an exemption has been granted under this Article makes application to a surveyor for a special permit under Article 77 of the Principal Order, the surveyor may grant such special permit to such person in accordance with such exemption without full compliance with Article 78 of the Principal Order and (where the terms of such exemption so permit) without consultation with the Commissioner.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this Thirty-first day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-eight.

(Signed) SEÁN T. O CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.