Road Traffic (Special Permits For Particular Vehicles) Regulations, 2007

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 283/2007
• Year: 2007

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No. 283 of 2007

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPECIAL PERMITS FOR PARTICULAR VEHICLES) REGULATIONS 2007

I, Martin Cullen, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and the National Roads and Road Traffic (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 (S. I. No. 298 of 2002) (as adapted by the Public Enterprise (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 (S.I. No. 305 of 2002)), hereby make the following regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Special Permits for Particular Vehicles) Regulations 2007. 2. In these Regulations “Regulations of 2003” means Road Traffic (Construction and Use of Vehicles) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 5 of 2003). 3. (1) In this Regulation “appropriate local authority” means the city council or the county council in whose functional area a public road is situated in respect of which a person may apply for a permit.

(2) Any person may apply to the appropriate local authority for the issue of a special permit (“permit”) authorising any particular vehicle or vehicles (including any combination of a mechanically propelled vehicle and one or more trailers), the use of which would contravene any of the requirements of the Regulations of 2003, to be used on one or more specified public roads or all the public roads within a specified area within the functional area of the authority notwithstanding such contravention.

(3) An application for a permit shall specify and describe any vehicles for which the permit is required and particulars of the journey or journeys to be undertaken, and, as relevant, the nature, dimensions and weight of any load or loads to be carried, the maximum number of passengers to be carried, the route or routes and stopping places (including places for the boarding and alighting of passengers on the route or routes, as the case may be) on such journey or journeys, and such other information as the local authority concerned may require.

(4) (a) An applicant shall, not less than 4 working days before making an application for a permit, give notice in writing to the Commissioner of the proposed application accompanied by a copy of it.

(b) Where a person is concerned with public transport, lighting, water supply, communications or some other similar public service and the Commissioner is of the opinion that the use on public roads of vehicles belonging to such person, the use of which would contravene the Regulations of 2003, is likely to be urgently necessary for the more efficient carrying on of such public service, the Commissioner may exempt this person from compliance with subparagraph (a).

(5) An application for a permit shall contain an undertaking by the...