Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 1961

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 67/1961
• Year: 1961

S.I. No. 67 of 1961.

TRAFFIC SIGNS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 69 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946) as amended by section 36 of the Local Government Act, 1955 (No. 9 of 1955) hereby makes the following Regulations :— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 1961. 2. The Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ) shall be amended as follows :—

(a) for sub-article (1) of article 5 there shall be substituted the following sub-article :—

" (1) The regulatory sign to indicate that a road ahead is a major road, the traffic on which has the right of way over traffic approaching from the road on which the sign is provided, shall consist of a red inverted equilateral triangle with rounded corners, the space inside the triangle being coloured white on which shall be shown in black letters the words ' Yield Right of Way ' or ' Géill Slí " ;

(b) In Part I of the Schedule paragraph (h) and sign 10 shall be deleted ;

(c) in Part II of the Schedule for paragraph (j) and sign 116 and paragraph (s) and sign 125 there shall be substituted paragraph (j) and signs 116 and 116A and paragraph (s) and sign 125 in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(d) in Part III of the Schedule—

(i) for Section A there shall be substituted Section A in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations ;

(ii) there shall be inserted in Section D the additional paragraph (f) and sign 214 in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations ;

(e) in Part IV of the Schedule—

(i) for " the following provisions apply to signs 1 to 10 inclusive " there shall be substituted " the following provisions apply to signs 1 to 9 inclusive " ;

(ii) "to accommodate a long place name " shall be deleted from paragraph 9;

(iii) paragraph 13 shall be deleted ;

(iv) the following additional paragraphs shall be inserted :—

" 4a—in the case of signs 1 and 2 the height of the lettering of place names in English may be increased to 3 inches, 4 inches or 5 inches and the height of the lettering of place names in Irish may be increased to 2 inches or 3 inches ; where the larger lettering is used the height of the panel may be increased where necessary.

8a—in the case of signs 3 and 4 the height of the panel may be increased to 11 inches ; the height of the lettering of place names in English may be increased to 4 inches or 5 inches and the height of the lettering of place names in Irish may be increased to 3 inches.

11a—in the case of sign 6 the length of the sign may be increased where necessary ; the height of the lettering of place names in English may be increased to 4 inches or 5 inches and the height of the lettering of place names in Irish may be increased to 3...