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PART II.
Regulation of Merchandise Road Transport Businesses.
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Exempted areas.
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8.—(1) Each of the following areas shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be an exempted area, that is to say:—
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(a) the area included within a circle having a radius of fifteen miles and its centre at the principal post office in the city of Dublin;
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(b) the area included within a circle having a radius of fifteen miles and its centre at the principal post office in the city of Cork;
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(c) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the city of Limerick;
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(d) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the city of Waterford;
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(e) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Ballina;
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(f) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Drogheda;
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(g) the area (except so much thereof as is situate in Northern Ireland) included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Dundalk;
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(h) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Gal way;
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(i) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Sligo;
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(j) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Tralee;
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(k) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Westport;
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(l) the area included within a circle having a radius of ten miles and its centre at the principal post office in the town of Wexford.
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(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act a certificate purporting to be signed and issued by an officer of the Ordnance Survey and to certify the distance measured in a straight line upon a horizontal plane between the principal post office in any specified city or town and any specified place shall be conclusive evidence (without proof of the signature of such officer or that he was such officer) of such distance.
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(3) For the purposes of this section the principal post office in any city or town shall be the post office which on the appointed day is the principal or only post office in such city or town.
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