Phoenix Park, Dublin.

• Date: 20 January 1926
• Statutory Instrument No.: 6/1926

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1926. No. 6.

PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN.

BYE-LAWS, 1926.

(PHOENIX PARK)

(DUBLIN).

BYE-LAWS made by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (with the approval of the Minister for Finance) by virtue of the powers conferred on the said Commissioners by the Phoenix Park Act, 1925 .

DEFINITIONS. 1. In these bye-laws:—

the word " Park " means the Phoenix Park in the County of Dublin.

the word " Commissioners " means the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

the expression " park constable " means a person appointed by the Commissioners under the Phoenix Park Act, 1925 (No. 31 of 1925), to be a park constable. 2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), shall apply to the interpretation of these bye-laws in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

TIMES DURING WHICH THE GATES OF THE PARK WILL BE KEPT OPEN. 3. The gates of the Park shall be open on such days and during such hours as shall be fixed by the Commissioners from time to time. The days and hours at present fixed are as hereinafter specified, namely:—

The Main Gate, the Castleknock Gate and the automatic wickets for cyclists and pedestrians attached to the several gates of the Park } At all hours of the day and night. The other gates: (a) on every day from the 10th day of February to the 14th day of November (both days inclusive) } From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and (b) on every day during the remainder of the year } From 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. 4. (1) Save with the permission in writing of the Commissioners no vehicle other than vehicles used solely for the conveyance of passengers (not including omnibuses or charabanes) shall be admitted to the Park.

(2) Save with the permission in writing of the Commissioners no funeral shall be admitted to the Park.

(3) Drivers of vehicles in the Park shall comply with the provisions of these bye-laws and shall conform to such orders for the regulation of traffic in the Park as may be given by any member of the Gárda Síochána or any park constable or contained in any notice by the Commissioners exhibited in the Park.

(4) No vehicle shall remain stationary on any road in the Park except at such places thereon as the Commissioners shall authorise and shall specify in a notice exhibited at such places.

(5) No vehicle shall remain stationary or shall loiter on the road known as the Ashtown Road or on the road known as the Whitefields Road on the occasion of the holding of any race meeting or other meeting on the Phoenix Park Racecourse.

(6) No vehicle other than a bicycle or tricycle shall be driven on or across the turf or grass in the Park except during such times and at such places as the Commissioners shall authorise and shall specify in notices exhibited at such places.

(7) No bicycle, tricycle, or other vehicle shall be ridden or driven at any time on or across any footpath in the Park.

ANIMALS. 5. (1) No cattle, sheep, pigs, or goats, shall be brought into the Park save with the permission in writing of the Commissioners granted to the owner or other the person having charge of such cattle, sheep, pigs, or goats.

(2) No horse or other animal shall be brought into the Park for the purpose of grazing therein or shall be allowed by the owner or other the person having charge thereof to graze therein save with the permission in writing of the Commissioners granted to such owner or such other person as aforesaid.

BYE-LAWS TO BE OBSERVED BY PERSONS RIDING OR IN CHARGE OF HORSES IN THE PARK. 6. (1) No person shall ride a horse

(a) in any enclosure in the Park, or

(b) in any place in the Park where the riding of a horse is prohibited by the Commissioners by a notice exhibited at such place, or

(c) on any footpath, or on any grass within 20 yards of a road or footpath, or

(d) on any newly-laid turf or space newly sown with grass.

(2) No person riding or in charge of any horse in the Park shall engage such horse or permit such horse to be engaged in the exercise of jumping or in the exercise of being longed.

(3) No person shall train or exercise any race-horse in the Park save with the permission in writing of the Commissioners granted to the owner or other the person having charge of such race-horse, and no person shall train or exercise any race-horse in respect of which such permission has been granted save only in such places in the Park as the Commissioners may from time to time in that behalf approve.

(4) Every person engaged in the training or exercising in the Park of any race-horse in respect of which the permission in writing of the Commissioner has been so granted as aforesaid shall while so engaged wear or carry upon his person such badge as the Commissioners shall...