Road Traffic Act, 1933
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PART X. Lighting of Vehicles. | ||
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Lights to be carried on vehicles. |
161.—(1) There shall be carried in the prescribed position and manner on every mechanically propelled vehicle (other than a mechanically propelled bicycle to which the next sub-section of this section applies), while it is on any road during lighting-up hours, the following lamps duly lit and in efficient condition, that is to say:— | |
(a) two lamps each showing to the front of such vehicle a white light visible from a reasonable distance; and | ||
(b) one other lamp showing to the rear of such vehicle a red light visible from a reasonable distance. | ||
(2) There shall be carried in the prescribed position and manner on every mechanically propelled bicycle used without any vehicle or attachment in the nature of a vehicle attached to the side thereof, while it is on any road during lighting-up hours, the following lamps duly lit and in efficient condition, that is to say:— | ||
(a) one lamp showing to the front of such bicycle a white light visible from a reasonable distance; and | ||
(b) one other lamp showing to the rear of such bicycle a red light visible from a reasonable distance. | ||
(3) There shall be carried on every mechanically propelled vehicle, while it is on any road during lighting up hours, a lamp (which may be either a separate lamp or one of the lamps required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be carried on such vehicle) duly lit and so constructed and placed that it illuminates with a white light the identification mark under the Roads Act, 1920 , carried at the rear of such vehicle. | ||
(4) There shall be carried in the prescribed position and manner on every vehicle which is neither a mechanically propelled vehicle nor a vehicle drawn by a mechanically propelled vehicle, while it is on any road during lighting-up hours— | ||
(a) one lamp duly lit and in efficient condition showing to the front of such vehicle a white light visible from a reasonable distance, and | ||
(b) a red reflector in efficient condition and so fitted that when a light is impinging on such vehicle from the rear thereof such reflector is visible to a person in the rear of such vehicle and within a reasonable distance thereof, and | ||
(c) if and when such vehicle is carrying a load projecting more than six feet to the rear of such vehicle, one other lamp showing to the rear of such vehicle a red light visible from a reasonable distance. | ||
(5) Where a vehicle or attachment in the nature of a vehicle is rigidly, but not necessarily permanently, attached to a mechanically propelled bicycle, such bicycle and such vehicle or attachment shall be deemed to form one vehicle for the purposes of this section. | ||
(6) Every regulation made under this Act prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this section as prescribed 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. |