S.I. No. 86/1968 - Dublin Parking Temporary Rules, 1968.

S.I. No. 86 of 1968.

DUBLIN PARKING TEMPORARY RULES, 1968.

I, PATRICK CARROLL, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 90 (7) of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961), and with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, hereby make the following temporary rules in respect of the area comprising the county borough of Dublin:—

1. These rules may be cited as the Dublin Parking Temporary Rules, 1968.

2. These rules shall come into operation on the 29th day of April, 1968.

3. (1) In these rules—

"holiday" means any of the following days—

St. Patrick's Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the following Monday,

Easter Monday,

the first Monday in June,

the first Monday in August,

Christmas Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the 27th December,

St. Stephen's Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the following Monday,

or, whenever a day is appointed under the Public Holidays Act, 1924 (No. 56 of 1924), to be a bank holiday instead of any of those days, the day so appointed;

"pedestrian crossing" means a crossing for pedestrians on a roadway, which is indicated by means of traffic signs of the type authorised by Article 9 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 171 of 1962 ), as amended by the Road Traffic (Signs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966 ( S.I. No. 233 of 1966 );

"pedestrian lights" means either of the types of mechanical signals authorised by Article 14 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962;

"relevant hours" means the period from 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on any weekday;

"road inset" means part of a roadway specially inset in the footway or road verge so as to afford parking space for vehicles on a part of the roadway other than that normally used by traffic passing along that roadway;

"service road" means a road which is—

( a ) parallel to a road (in these rules called a "through road") designed or intended to carry traffic going through a particular area or between two particular places, and

( b ) constructed for traffic serving only a line of shops or houses set back from the through road;

"street" means a public road;

"traffic sign" has the meaning assigned to it by section 95 of the Act;

"traffic lights" means any of the types of mechanical signals authorised by Article 13 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962;

"weekday" means any day other than a Sunday or a holiday.

(2) In these rules a reference to goods being loaded into a vehicle shall be construed as including the supplying of fuel or oil for the operation of the vehicle.

(3) Every mention in these rules of the name of a street or other place shall be construed as referring to the street or place in the county borough of Dublin which is known (whether by official name or by popular usage) by that name.

4. (1) ( a ) In a street or portion of a street named in column (2) of the Schedule to these rules, any place delimited in column (3) of the said Schedule opposite the mention in the said column (2) of such street shall be a parking place.

( b ) Where premises fronting on a parking place mentioned in the said Schedule have an entrance specially designed to afford access for mechanically propelled vehicles or animal-drawn vehicles, the portion of the street from which access to that entrance is obtainable shall be deemed to be excluded from the parking place.

( c ) Where a parking place mentioned in the said Schedule includes a street junction, the street junction and the space within thirty feet thereof shall be deemed to be excluded from the parking place; provided that this subparagraph shall not apply where the street entering the street containing the parking place does not enter it on the side on which the parking place is situate.

( d) If traffic lights are provided the space between the traffic lights and roadway markings of the type authorised by Article 12 (h) of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962, as amended by Article 3 of the Road Traffic (Signs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964 ( S.I. No. 56 of 1964 ), shall be deemed to be excluded from the parking places mentioned in the said Schedule.

(2) The following provisions shall apply to the parking places mentioned in the Schedule to these rules:—

( a ) a vehicle (other than a bicycle without a side-car) shall not be parked in the parking place during the relevant hours for a continuous period which exceeds one hour;

( b ) a vehicle which has been parked in and removed from a parking place during the relevant hours shall not be parked again in that parking place during the relevant hours within one hour after the time at which it was so removed therefrom;

( c ) a bicycle without a side-car shall be parked parallel to the kerb and so that no part of the bicycle projects over the roadway more than eighteen inches from the kerb; provided that a bicycle without a side-car, if it cannot be so parked, may be parked on the roadway with its rear to the kerb and not more than eighteen inches from the kerb;

( d ) a vehicle other than a vehicle referred to in subparagraph (c) shall be parked on the roadway in single line by and parallel to, but not more than eighteen inches from the kerb;

( e) where a parking place includes any of the following spaces, the space or spaces (as the case may be) shall be deemed to be excluded from the parking place:—

(i) a pedestrian crossing and the space within thirty feet thereof;

(ii) if pedestrian lights are provided, the space within thirty feet of the pedestrian lights;

provided that, in a street where traffic is permitted to proceed in both directions, clauses (i) and (ii) shall apply (as regards each approach to the pedestrian crossing or pedestrian lights) only to the side of the street on which traffic approaching the pedestrian crossing or pedestrian lights is required to proceed, and that in a street where traffic is required to proceed in one direction only clauses (i) and (ii) shall apply only to the side of the pedestrian crossing or pedestrian lights from which traffic is required to approach the crossing or lights;

( f) a vehicle, while parked in a parking place, shall not be offered or displayed for sale or for hire or as a prize;

( g) a vehicle shall be placed in a parking place so that—

(i) the whole of the vehicle is within the limits of the parking place, and

(ii) no part of the vehicle is within an area deemed by these rules to be excluded from the parking place; provided that portion of the vehicle or an attachment thereto may project over a footway but not so as to interfere with the free movement of pedestrians on the footway;

( h) (i) no person shall overhaul or execute repairs to a vehicle while it is parked in a parking place,

(ii) it shall be a good defence to a charge of contravention of clause (i) to show that while parked or within a reasonable time before the parking the vehicle had been damaged in an accident or had had a breakdown and that in order to enable it to be moved from the public road it was necessary to carry out the repairs;

( i) neither the driver of a vehicle which is parked in a parking place nor any other person shall make any unnecessary noise by means of or in relation to the vehicle or the engine or any equipment, fittings or instruments fitted to or carried on the vehicle or any loudspeaker in or on or in any way connected with the vehicle;

( j) the driver of a vehicle which is parked in or being brought into or removed from a parking place shall comply with any traffic sign relating to such parking place and with all directions given to him by a member of the Garda Síochána in uniform in relation to the parking of the vehicle in the parking place or the bringing of the vehicle into or the removal of the vehicle from the parking place, and in particular, a direction to change the position of the vehicle in the parking place;

( k) a member of the Garda Síochána in uniform may require the driver of a vehicle to remove it from a parking place in order to ease the flow of traffic or to afford access to premises, and the driver shall comply with any such requirement;

( l) notwithstanding any other provision of this rule restricting the classes of vehicles which may be parked in a parking place or the conditions subject to which a vehicle may be parked in a parking place, a vehicle may be parked in a parking place in the following circumstances—

(i) where the vehicle is halted merely while passengers are entering it or leaving it, or

(ii) where the vehicle is halted merely while goods are being loaded into or on to the vehicle from premises, or unloaded from the vehicle into premises, being (in each case) premises fronting on or adjacent to the place where the vehicle is parked;

( m) vehicles of the following classes shall not be parked in a parking place—

(i) any vehicle drawing another vehicle,

(ii) any vehicle having seating passenger accommodation for more than eight persons exclusive of the driver,

(iii) any vehicle which is not mechanically propelled,

(iv) any vehicle bearing a limited trade plate,

(v) any vehicle intended or adapted primarily for any purpose other than the carriage of passengers.

5. These rules shall not apply to a parking place, being a scheduled place within the meaning of rule 3 of the Dublin Traffic and Parking Temporary Rules, 1967 ( S.I. No. 259 of 1967 ), during the period specified in column (3) of the Schedule to those Rules opposite the mention in column (2) of that Schedule of that scheduled place.

SCHEDULE.

PARKING PLACES WHERE PARKING IS LIMITED TO ONE HOUR.

Ref. No.	Name of Street	Limits of Parking Place
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Abbey Street Lower.	South side.
2.	Anne Street South.	North side.
3.	Aston Quay.	Between Wellington Quay and Prices Lane—south side.
4.	Bachelor's Walk.	Between Liffey Street Lower and party wall of Nos. 6/7— north side.
5.	College Street.	North side.
6.	Camden Street Lower.	Between Wexford Street and Grantham Street—west side.
7.	Camden Street Lower.	Between Wexford Street and party wall of Nos. 4¼2—east side.
8.	Dawson Street.	Between Nassau Street and southern building line of Mansion House-east side.
9.	D'Olier Street.	West side.
10.	Duke Street.	South side.
11.	Jervis Street.	Between Mary Street and Abbey Street Upper—west side.
12.	Kildare Street.	Between Schoolhouse Lane and Molesworth Street—west side.
13.	King Street South.	North side.
14.	Leinster Street South.	Between Nassau Street and a point opposite eastern building line of Leinster Lane—north side.
15.	Nassau Street.	South side.
16.	Nassau Street.	Between party wall of Nos. 16/17 and Leinster Street South—north side.
17.	North Strand Road.	Between No. 75 and No. 83—west side.
18.	Ormond Quay Lower.	Between Swift's Row and Bachelor's Walk—north side.

Ref. No.	Name of Street	Limits of Parking Place
(1)	(2)	(3)
19.	Palace Street.	West side.
20.	Parkgate Street.	North side.
21.	Parnell Street.	Between O'Connell Street and No. 71B and between Moore Street and Jervis Street—south side.
22.	Parnell Street.	Between O'Connell Street and Cumberland Street—both sides.
23.	Pearse Street.	Between Tara Street and College Street—north side.
24.	Shelbourne Road.	East side, between the entrance to Estate Cottages and the northern building line of No. 164 Shelbourne Road.
25.	Trinity Street.	Between St. Andrew Street and party wall of Nos. ½—east side.
26.	Westmoreland Street.	East side.

GIVEN under my hand this 15th day of March, 1968.

(Signed) PATRICK CARROLL,

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.

I hereby consent to the making of the foregoing temporary rules.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of April, 1968.

CAOIMHGHIN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Aire Rialtais Áitiúil.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

1. Rule 4 provides that vehicles parking in the streets mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule shall not park in such place for a continuous period which exceeds one hour.

2. These rules shall operate in lieu of Dublin Parking Bye-Laws, 1962 ( S.I. No. 11 of 1963 ) in so far as the rules affect the Second Schedule of the said bye-laws.

3. These rules shall not apply during the periods of operation of the Dublin Traffic and Parking Temporary Rules, 1967 ( S.I. No. 259 of 1967 in respect of streets or portions of streets to which those Rules apply.