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Regulations in relation to lamps on vehicles.
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163.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—
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(a) restricting the number, position, colour, and character of the lamps which may be carried lit and the reflectors which may be carried on any vehicle or on any vehicle of a particular class on roads generally or on any particular class of roads or any particular road during lighting-up hours in addition to the lamps and reflectors (if any) which are required by or under this Part of this Act to be carried lit or to be carried on such vehicle while on any road during lighting-up hours;
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(b) prescribing the number, colour, character, position and mode of attachment of the lamps which are to be carried lit and of the reflectors which are to be carried on every vehicle or on every vehicle of a particular class while carrying an overhanging or projecting load on any road during lighting-up hours in addition to or in substitution for all or any of the lamps which are required by or under any other provision of this Part of this Act to be carried lit thereon;
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(c) restricting or controlling the power, height, width, and range of the light projected by the lamps carried lit thereon on any road or on any particular road or class of roads and the angle of projection of the beams of such light and the temporary or partial obscuration of any such light and the extent and mode of affecting such obscuration;
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(d) restricting or controlling the alteration, while a vehicle is in motion on any road, or the direction in relation to such vehicle in which the light from any lamp carried lit on such vehicle is projected, whether such alteration is effected by a rotational or other movement of the lamp or any part thereof or by a deflection of the light projected therefrom;
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(e) regulating and prescribing the number, colour, character, position, and mode of attachment of the lamps which are to be carried lit and of the reflectors which are to be carried on vehicles of any particular class either generally or in particular places or particular circumstances and either in addition to or substitution for all or any of the lamps which are required to be carried lit, and reflectors which are required to be carried on such vehicle by or under any other provision of this Part of this Act;
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(f) making special provision in relation to vehicles or any particular class of vehicles while carrying specified goods of an inflammable or explosive nature or while in a place in which such goods are stored and for the purpose of such special provisions to exempt vehicles to which such provisions apply from any specified provisions of this Part of this Act;
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(g) exempting from the operation of any particular provisions of this Part of this Act or any regulations made thereunder vehicles which are stationary in a place which is a parking place within the meaning of this Act.
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(2) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after such regulation is so laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.
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