Road transport act, 1934

• Enactment Date: 18 May 1934
• Act Number: 17

Number 17 of 1934.
ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1934.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Definitions. 2. Carriage for reward. 3. “Lorry.” 4. “Registration Book.” 5. Amendment of section 3 of the Principal Act. 6. Existing carriers. 7. Avoidance of order under section 5 of the Principal Act. 8. Postponement of commencement of certain merchandise licences. 9. Amendment of section 9 of the Principal Act. 10. Amendment of section 12 of the Principal Act. 11. Variation of standard lorry weights and standard tractor weights. 12. Fees on application for issue of vehicle plates. 13. Amendment of section 38 of the Principal Act. 14. Restriction on applications under sub-section (1) of section 51 of the Principal Act. 15. Short title.
Acts Referred to Road Transport Act, 1933 No. 8 of 1933 Road Transport (No. 2) Act, 1933 No. 39 of 1933
Number 17 of 1934.
ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1934.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1933 . [18th May, 1934.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
	Definitions.	1.—(1) In this Act—
	the expression “the Principal Act” means the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933);
	the expression “duly licensed” means duly licensed in Saorstát Eireann under section 13 of the Finance Act, 1920 , as amended by subsequent enactments.
	(2) Every word and expression to which a particular meaning is given by the Principal Act for the purposes of that Act has in this Act the meaning so given to it.
	Carriage for reward.	2.—Where a mechanically propelled vehicle or a vehicle drawn by a mechanically propelled vehicle is used for the carriage of merchandise the property of the owner of such mechanically propelled vehicle, such merchandise shall not be deemed for the purposes of the Principal Act to be carried for reward.
	“Lorry.”	3.—A mechanically propelled vehicle shall be deemed to be a lorry within the meaning of the Principal Act, where the following conditions are complied with, that is to say:—
	(a) such vehicle is constructed and designed for the carriage of passengers;
	(b) such vehicle has sitting accommodation for not more than six passengers (excluding the driver);
	(c) such vehicle is for the time being used for the carriage of newspapers for reward.
	“Registration Book.”	4.—The definition of the expression “registration book”contained in section 2 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the words “or a copy of the registration particulars of such vehicle issued by the authority by which such vehicle was licensed under the Roads Act, 1920 ” after the words “the Roads Act, 1920 ” and the Principal Act and this Act shall be construed and have effect with due regard to the extension of the said expression effected by said amendment.
	Amendment of section 3 of the Principal Act.	5.—The Road Transport (No. 2) Act, 1933 (No. 39 of 1933), is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if for the words “one month after the passing of this Act” now contained therein there were inserted the words and figures “the 1st day of April, 1934”.
	Existing carriers.	6.—Where the ownership of a merchandise road transport business is before the appointed day transferred from a person to whom a certificate under section 3 of the Principal Act has been issued in respect of such business, the person to whom such ownership is transferred shall, notwithstanding anything in sub-section (3) of the said section 3 , be deemed to be an existing carrier for the purposes of the Principal Act.
	Avoidance of order under section 5 of the Principal Act.	7.—Any order made before the passing of this Act under sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Principal Act is hereby declared to be and shall be deemed always to have been void and of no effect, and accordingly an order may be made under the said sub-section (1) at any time after the passing of this Act.
	Postponement of commencement of certain merchandise licences.	8.—Every merchandise licence granted before the appointed day and expressed to commence on the 1st day of February, 1934, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section 19 of the Principal Act, or in such licence, commence on the appointed day and shall (unless it previously lapses or is revoked under the Principal Act and subject to any suspension under that Act) continue in force for a period of twelve months from the appointed day and shall then expire unless it is renewed under the Principal Act.
	Amendment of section 9 of the Principal Act.	9.— Section 9 of the Principal Act is hereby amended in the following respects and shall be construed and have effect accordingly, that is to say:—
	(a) by the substitution in sub-section (2) of the said section of the word “merchandise” for the words “on a merchandise road transport business” now contained therein;
	(b) by the insertion after sub-section (3) of the said section of the following additional sub-section, that is to say:—
	“(4) Where a person is proved to have carried merchandise by way of merchandise road transport, such person shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to have so carried such merchandise in the course of a merchandise road transport business carried on by him.”
	Amendment of section 12 of the Principal Act.	10.—Sub-section (4) of section 12 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the words “or a shipping company”after the words “other than an authorised (merchandise carrying) company” now contained therein, and the said sub-section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.
	Variation of standard lorry weights and standard tractor weights.	11.—(1) Where any person—
	(a) who is the licensee under a merchandise (existing carrier's) licence for whom there is a standard lorry weight, and
	(b) who claims that he is the owner of any lorry or lorries which complied with the appropriate conditions,
	applies to the Minister before the appointed day for a direction under this sub-section, the Minister may, if he is satisfied that such claim is well founded, direct that the standard lorry weight for such licensee shall be increased by such weight, not exceeding, in case such claim relates to one lorry only, the unladen weight of such lorry or, in case such claim relates to two or more lorries, the total unladen weights of such lorries, as he may fix, and, if such direction is so given, the standard lorry weight for such licensee for the purposes of the Principal Act shall be the original standard lorry weight as so increased.
	(2) Where any person—
	(a) who is the licensee under a merchandise (existing carrier's) licence for whom there is a standard tractor weight, and
	(b) who claims that he is the...