S.I. No. 108/1933 - The Road Traffic (Bridge Notice) Order, 1933.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 108.

THE ROAD TRAFFIC (BRIDGE NOTICE) ORDER, 1933.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1933 .

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 158 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 in relation to the notices provided for in that section hereby orders and prescribes as follows that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Bridge Notice) Order, 1933.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this Order in the same manner in which it applies to an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In this Order the expression " the Act " means the Road Traffic Act, 1933 .

The expression " bridge notice " means a notice erected under section 158 of the act on the approaches to a bridge to indicate the existence of a restriction on the use of such bridge by vehicles.

4. Every bridge notice shall be in the form set forth in the schedule to this Order.

5. Every bridge notice shall be so constructed, and erected in such a position and manner as to be reasonably legible and noticeable by the drivers of vehicles approaching the bridge by day or night.

6.—(1) A person appealing to the Minister against a bridge notice under sub-section (3) of section 158 of the act (in this Article referred to as " the appellant ") shall prepare a statement showing

(a) the situation of the bridge on which the bridge notice has been erected, and

(b) the person by whom the bridge notice was erected, and

(c) a copy of the bridge notice, and

(d) whether he wishes the bridge notice removed or altered and, in the latter case, the nature of the alteration he wishes to be made.

(e) the grounds on which his appeal is based.

(2) The appellant shall send by registered post to the person by whom the bridge notice was erected notice of his intention to appeal against the bridge notice together with a copy of the statement referred to in the first paragraph of this Article.

(3) When the provisions of the preceding paragraph have been complied with the appellant may appeal to the Minister by sending by post to the Minister, Custom House, Dublin, a copy of the statement referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this Twenty-third day of September, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND,

Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, acting as agent for the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

SCHEDULE.

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1933 .

BRIDGE NOTICE (a).

Notice is hereby given by the (b)................................................in pursuance of section 158 of the above-mentioned Act that no vehicle which, with its load (if any) weighs more than

............................................................ ........................................ (a) is permitted to pass over this bridge (at a speed exceeding miles per hour) (c)

Any person driving a vehicle over this bridge in contravention of this notice is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20 and the owner of the vehicle is liable in damages for any injury occasioned to the bridge.

Note: (a) This portion of the notice is to be printed in letters not less than four inches high.

(b) Here insert the name of authority by whom notice is erected.

(c) The words in brackets are to be inserted in appropriate cases.

All letters and figures except those referred to in note (a) are to be not less than one inch in height.