S.I. No. 143/1962 - Road Traffic (Passenger Accommodation of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Regulations, 1962.
S.I. No. 143 of 1962. | ||
ROAD TRAFFIC (PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION OF MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VEHICLES) REGULATIONS, 1962. | ||
The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 121 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby makes the following Regulations:— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Passenger Accommodation of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Regulations, 1962. 2.—(1) For the purposes of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , the passenger accommodation of a mechanically propelled vehicle shall be the total seating passenger accommodation of the vehicle determined as follows :— | ||
(a) Each separate seat on which a person could be seated, allowing a width of sixteen inches for such person, shall be reckoned as accommodating one passenger; | ||
(b) Each continuous seat shall be reckoned as accommodating the number of persons who could be seated on such seat, allowing a width of sixteen inches for each person; | ||
(c) The seat or space occupied by the driver of the vehicle shall not be reckoned. | ||
(2) In these Regulations, " continuous seat " includes two or more separate seats which are divided by such means as to allow such seats to be used as one continuous seat. | ||
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Third day of August One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-two. | ||
NEIL T. BLANEY, | ||
Minister for Local Government. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||
These Regulations prescribe the method of calculating the passenger accommodation of mechanically propelled vehicles for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 . |