S.I. No. 69/1955:

ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1933, REGULATIONS, 1955.

ROAD TRANSPORT ACT, 1933, REGULATIONS, 1955.

I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 6 of the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933) as amended by the Road Transport Act, 1934 (No. 17 of 1934), hereby make the following regulations :--

1.--(1) These regulations may be cited as the Road Transport Act, 1933 , Regulations, 1955.

(2) The Road Transport Act, 1933 , (Part II) Regulations Order, 1933, the Road Transport Act, 1933 , (Part V) Regulations Order, 1933, the Road Transport Act, 1933 (Section 29) Regulations Order, 1934, the Road Transport Act, 1933 (Part II) Regulations Order, 1933 (Amendment) Order, 1937, and these Regulations, may be cited together as the Road Transport Act, 1933 , Regulations, 1933 to 1955.

(3) In these Regulations, " the Act " means the Road Transport Act, 1933 .

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3.--(1) The fee payable to the Minister on application for the grant, renewal or transfer of a merchandise licence shall be that prescribed in the First Schedule hereto.

(2) The fee payable to the Minister on application for an order under Part V of the Act shall be that prescribed in the First Schedule hereto.

(3) Every fee under this Article shall be lodged with the application and shall be payable in the form of a Post Office Money Order payable to the Paymaster General at the General Post Office, Dublin, and crossed " /& Co./ " or in the form of a cheque guaranteed by the bank on which it is drawn, payable to the credit of the Paymaster General.

4.--(1) The fee payable on application to a Chief Superintendent of the Garda Síochána for a vehicle plate, or for the issue of a vehicle plate by way of replacement, shall be that prescribed in the First Schedule hereto.

(2) Where in respect of an application for a vehicle plate the following conditions are complied with :--

(a) a vehicle in respect of which a vehicle plate has been issued ceases to be duly licensed, and

(b) such vehicle plate is on such cesser delivered to a member of the Garda Síochána at the plate issuing station at which such vehicle plate was issued, and

(c) the application is duly made within nine months after such delivery for the issue of a vehicle plate in respect of such vehicle,

the fee payable on such application for the issue of a vehicle plate shall, anything in paragraph (1) of this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, be that prescribed at 2(c) in the First Schedule hereto.

(3) The fee in respect of application for a vehicle plate, or application for the issue of a new vehicle plate by way of replacement, shall be payable by means of a stamp, being the amount of such fee impressed on the application form, and the Stamp Duties Management Act, 1891, shall apply to such fee and such stamp.

5. Every fee collected under these Regulations shall be paid into the Exchequer.

6. The Orders set out in the Second Schedule hereto are hereby revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE

FEES

SECOND SCHEDULE

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of April, 1955.

WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.