Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1991.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1991
• Citation: IR SI 358/1991

S.I. No. 358 of 1991.

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND USE OF VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1991.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 11 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby makes the following Regulations: 1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1991.

(2) The Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1991 and these Regulations shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1991. 2. In these Regulations—

"the Principal Regulations" means the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 190 of 1963 );

"the Agreement of 1958" means the United Nations Agreement Concerning The Adoption of Uniform Conditions of Approval and Reciprocal Recognition of Approval for Motor Vehicle Equipment and Parts, done at Geneva on 20th March, 1958;

"bias-belted tyre" means a pneumatic tyre of bias-ply type in which the carcass is restricted by a belt comprising two or more layers of substantially inextensible cord material laid at alternate angles close to those of the carcass;

"diagonal, cross-ply or bias-ply tyre" means a pneumatic tyre in which the ply cords extend to the beads and are laid at alternate angles substantially less than 90 degrees to the centre-line of the tread;

"E.C.E. Regulation No. 64" means Regulation No. 64 as set out in United Nations document of reference E/ECE/324: Rev. 1/Add. 63, dated 1st August, 1985 and annexed to the Agreement of 1958;

"main grooves" means the broad grooves in the central three-quarters of the width of the tread surface;

"maximum design axle weight" means the weight which the axle is designed or adapted not to exceed;

"maximum speed" means the speed which a mechanically propelled vehicle is incapable, by reason of its construction, of exceeding on the level under its own power;

"radial ply tyre" means a pneumatic type in which the ply cords extend to the beads and are laid substantially at 90 degrees to the centre-line of the tread, the carcass being stabilised by a substantially inextensible circumferential belt;

"recut pneumatic tyre" means a pneumatic tyre in which all or part of its original tread pattern has been cut deeper or burnt deeper or a different tread pattern has been cut deeper or burnt deeper than the original tread pattern;

"section width" means the linear distance between the outsides of the sidewalls of an inflated new tyre excluding elevations due to markings, decorations, or protective bands or ribs;

"temporary use spare tyre or wheel" means a tyre or wheel different from that intended to be fitted to any vehicle for normal use but intended only for temporary use subject to restrictions;

"tie-bar" means any part of a tyre moulded in the tread pattern of the tyre for the purpose of bracing two or more features of such tread pattern;

"tread pattern" means the combination of plain surfaces and grooves extending across the breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre but excludes any—

(i) tie-bars or tread wear indicators,

(ii) features which are designed to wear out substantially before the rest of the pattern under normal conditions of use;

"tread wear indicator" means any bar, not being a tie-bar, projecting from the base of a groove of the tread pattern of a tyre and moulded between two or more features of the tread pattern of a tyre for the purpose of indicating the extent of the wear of such tread pattern;

"structure" in relation to a pneumatic tyre means the technical characteristics of the tyre's carcass...