Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act, 2001

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PART 4

On-street Regulation of Light Railway

Speed limits.

54.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a speed limit applying under Part IV (as amended by the Road Traffic Act, 1968 and the Act of 1994) of the Act of 1961 in respect of a public road shall apply to a light rail vehicle.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), the Minister may make regulations prescribing in respect of any specified public road or parts of a public road the speed which shall be the speed limit on such road or roads for a light rail vehicle, and any such regulations shall be road regulations for the purposes of section 95(1) of the Act of 1961.

(3) Before making regulations under subsection (2), the Minister shall give notice to—

(a) a local authority and the commissioners of any town in the area concerned, of the proposed regulations relating to public roads in the area and shall consider any representations made in writing to the Minister by such local authority or commissioners within the period (not being less than 28 days after the date of service of the notice) specified in the notice, and

(b) the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána of the proposed regulations and shall consider any representations made in writing to the Minister by the Commissioner within the period (not being less than 28 days after the date of service of the notice) specified in the notice.

(4) The Minister shall not make regulations under subsection (2) relating to national roads or motorways (within the meaning of the Act of 1993) without the prior consent of the National Roads Authority.

(5) A person who drives a light rail vehicle at a speed exceeding a speed limit applying in respect of a public road—

(a) under the Act of 1961 as applied by this section, or

(b) prescribed in regulations made under subsection (2),

is guilty of an offence.

(6) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (5) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €600 (£472.54).