S.I. No. 282/1948:

ROAD VEHICLES (ADDITIONAL INDEX MARK) ORDER, 1948.

ROAD VEHICLES (ADDITIONAL INDEX MARK) ORDER, 1948.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Roads Act, 1920, provision was made by the Roads Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1921, (hereinafter called " the Principal Regulations "), amongst other things for the registration of mechanically propelled vehicles, and for allotting to each of the councils (being county councils as defined in the Roads Act, 1920) mentioned in the third schedule to the said regulations, the index mark or index marks shown for each such council in the said third schedule :

AND WHEREAS the index marks allotted as foresaid by the said regulations to the Council of the County Borough of Dublin (hereinafter referred to as " the Corporation ") consists of the letters RI and YI :

AND WHEREAS by Orders dated the 13th day of November, 1926, the 9th day of February, 1932, the 11th day of January, 1937, the 20th day of September, 1939, and the 1st day of January, 1947, the said regulations were amended so that additional index marks consisting of the letters ZI, ZA, ZC, ZD, and ZH were allotted to the Corporation :

AND WHEREAS it is now expedient that a further index mark should be allotted to the Corporation in addition to the index marks already allotted as aforesaid :

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in him in that behalf, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :--

1. The Principal Regulations shall apply and have effect as if, in addition to the index marks RI, YI, ZI, ZA, ZC, ZD and ZH, there was allotted to the Corporation an index mark consisting of the letters ZJ.

2. Every reference in the Principal Regulations to the Council of the County Borough of Dublin or the index marks allotted to the said Council, shall be construed as including respectively a reference to the Corporation or to the index mark allotted to the Corporation by this Order.

3. This Order may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Additional Index Mark) Order, 1948.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this eighteenth day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) T. J. MURPHY,

Minister for Local Government.