Road Traffic (Signs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 56/1964
• Year: 1964

S.I. No. 56 of 1964.
ROAD TRAFFIC (SIGNS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1964.
The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in him by sections 5 and 95 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby makes the following Regulations:—
	1 Citation and construction.	1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Signs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964.
(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations shall be construed together and may be cited collectively as the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962 and 1964.
	2 Definitions.	2. In these Regulations—
" the Act " means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 ;
" the Principal Regulations " means the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 171 of 1962 ) ;
" buffer area " means an area between two parking bays intended to facilitate the parking of vehicles in the parking bays ;
" meter parking place " means a parking place specified as a meter parking place by bye-laws under section 90 of the act ;
" parking bay " means a space in a meter parking place intended for the parking of one vehicle or, where the space is reserved for the parking of bicycles, more than one vehicle ;
" traffic lights " means a mechanical signal as specified by article 13 of the Principal Regulations.
	3 Amendment of article 12 of Principal Regulations.	3. Article 12 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended—
(a) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a) :—
" (aa) two parallel continuous white lines approximately four inches apart, each line being approximately four inches wide, extending together not less than sixty feet along the centre of the roadway—to indicate that traffic shall keep to the left of such lines ; "
(b) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b) :—
" (bb) a continuous white line and a broken white line parallel thereto and approximately four inches therefrom, extending together along the centre of the roadway, each line being approximately four inches wide, the broken white line consisting of segments approximately three feet long and fifteen feet apart—to indicate that traffic on the side of the roadway on which the continuous white line is placed shall keep to the left of the lines and that traffic on the side of the roadway on which the broken white line is placed shall keep to the left of the lines except where circumstances are such that traffic may cross the lines without danger to other traffic or pedestrians ; "
(c) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (e) :—
" (ee) white arrows curved to the right or to the left placed in a traffic lane at the junction of an important road and a road of lesser importance, to indicate
(i) the direction in which traffic using the lane is to proceed in order to enter the main stream of traffic on the important road, or
(ii) the direction in which traffic using the lane is to proceed in order to leave the important road ; "
(d) by the addition of the following paragraphs :—
" (g) at, or at the approach to, a road junction, the name of a place to which a road leads together with an arrow indicating its direction, the place-name and the arrow being in white ;
(h) white roadway markings as set out in Section A of Part VIII of the First Schedule to these Regulations, to indicate that parking is prohibited, on the side of the road on which the markings are provided, between the markings and traffic lights provided on the road ;
(i) roadway markings consisting of white lines approximately two inches wide as set...