S.I. No. 38/1976:

ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1976.

ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1976.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6 and 12 of the Roads Act, 1920 and section 1 of the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act, 1952 (No. 24 of 1952) hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations, 1976.

(2) These Regulations and the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1958 to 1974, shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1958 to 1976.

(3) These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1976.

2. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1958 ( S.I. No. 13 of 1958 ).

3. Article 19 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution for sub-article (2) of the following sub-article--

"(2) In the case of a vehicle in respect of which an identification mark assigned in Great Britain or in Northern Ireland was retained on being licensed, the licensing authority with whom the vehicle is registered shall assign to the vehicle an identification mark consisting of an index mark allotted to the licensing authority and a registered number and shall notify the registered owner accordingly, and that identification mark shall thereafter attach to the vehicle until the same is broken up, destroyed or sent permanently out of the State."

4. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the substitution for article 26 of the following article--

"26. For the purposes of section 1 of the Act of 1952, for periods beginning on or after the first day of March, 1976 the periods of a year less than a year for which a licence may be taken out in respect of a vehicle (not being a tramcar or a vehicle on which a duty of five pounds or less is chargeable) shall be such as are hereinafter specified and the duties payable in respect of licences for such periods shall be at the rates hereinafter specified:--

( a ) A licence may be taken out for a period of three months ending on the last day of any month on payment of eleven fortieths of the full annual rate of duty (any fraction of fifty pence in the amount so calculated being treated as fifty pence if it is not less than twenty five pence and otherwise being disregarded);

( b ) A licence may be taken out for a period of six months ending on the last day of any month on payment of whichever of the following is the lesser, that is to say

(i) eleven twentieths of the full annual rate of duty (any fraction of fifty pence in the amount so calculated being treated as fifty pence if it is not less than twenty five pence and otherwise being disregarded);

(ii) twice the rate appropriate to a period of three months calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) of this article."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this 19th day of February, 1976.

JAMES TULLY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations amend the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1958 (No. 13 of 1958) so as to provide--

( a ) that in the case of a vehicle in respect of which an identification mark assigned in Great Britain or in Northern Ireland was retained on being licensed, that the licensing authority with whom the vehicle is registered shall assign to the vehicle an appropriate Irish identification mark and shall notify the registered owner accordingly; and

( b ) that from the 1st of March, 1976 the rates of duty in respect of any licence taken out for a period of three or six months which includes any fraction of fifty pence in the amount, such fraction shall be treated as fifty pence if it is not less than twenty-five pence and any fraction of fifty pence which is less than twenty-five pence shall be disregarded.