Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limits - Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, Etc) Regulations, 2008
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Year | 2008 |
Citation | IR SI 546/2008 |
S.I. No. 546 of 2008 |
ROAD TRAFFIC (ORDINARY SPEED LIMITS — BUSES, HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES, ETC) REGULATIONS 2008 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in |
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 19th December, 2008. |
I, NOEL DEMPSEY, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 4 of the Road Traffic Act 2004 (No. 44 of 2004), hereby make the following regulations: |
Citation and commencement |
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Ordinary Speed Limits — Buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles, etc) Regulations 2008. |
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 February 2009. |
Definitions |
2. In these Regulations— |
“design gross vehicle weight” has the meaning assigned to it in the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 1999 ( S.I. No. 352 of 1999 ); |
“dual carriageway” means a road, the roadway of which is divided centrally so as to provide two separate carriageways, on each of which traffic is required by a road regulation to proceed in one direction only; |
“seating capacity” means the seating passenger accommodation determined in accordance with the Road Traffic (Passenger Accommodation of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Regulations 1962 ( S.I. No. 143 of 1962 ). |
Speed limits — buses, etc |
3. (1) The ordinary speed limit prescribed for a single or double deck mechanically propelled vehicle constructed or adapted for use primarily for the carriage of passengers which has seating capacity for more than 8 persons and which is— |
(a) neither designed nor adapted for the carriage of standing passengers, when driven on— |
(i) a motorway or a dual carriageway, is 100 kilometres per hour, or |
(ii) any other public road, is 80 kilometres per hour, or |
(b) designed or adapted for the carriage of standing passengers when driven on any public road is 65 kilometres per hour. |
Speed limits — certain other vehicles |
4. The ordinary speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour is prescribed in respect of all public roads for— |
(a) a mechanically propelled vehicle neither constructed nor adapted for use primarily for the carriage of passengers which has design gross vehicle weight in excess of 3,500 kilograms, and |
(b) a combination of a mechanically propelled vehicle drawing another vehicle. |
Lesser speed limit |
5. A speed limit prescribed in these Regulations does not apply in respect of any road where a lesser speed limit having effect under Part 2 of the Road... |
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