29/08/1924:

ORDER ENTITLED ROAD VEHICLES (MOTOR TAX ACCOUNT) ORDER, 1924. No. O. S. I OF 1924.

WHEREAS by an Order (in this Order referred to as the Principal Order) made on the 7th day of February, 1921, by the King in Council in exercise of powers in that behalf vested in him by section 1 of the Roads Act, 1920, it was ordered that an account under the title " Motor Tax Account " should be opened in the name of the Minister for Transport at the Bank of England, and the said Order contains divers provisions in regard to such account not material to be here stated:

AND WHEREAS the late provisional Government for Ireland opened an account at the Bank of Ireland under the title " Motor Tax Account " for the purposes of the Principal Order so far as those purposes affected the area within the jurisdiction of that Government, and that account is still operative for the purposes aforesaid so far as those purposes affect the area within the jurisdiction of the Parliament and Government of Soarstát Éireann :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (6) of the said section 1 of the Roads Act, 1920, that an Order in Council made under that section may be revoked, varied, or amended by a subsequent Order so made, and it is enacted by section 10 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that whereever it is provided in any British Statute that any act or thing shall or may be made or done by Order in Council, then every such act or thing may be made or done in Saorstát Éireann by an Order of the Governor General of the Irish Free State on the advice of the Executive Council :

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said account at the Bank of Ireland should be transferred to the National Land Bank, Limited, and that the Principal Order should be varied and amended accordingly :

NOW I, TIMOTHY MICHAEL HEALY, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, acting on the advice of the Executive Council of Saorstát Éireann, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred on me by the joint operation of the Roads Act, 1920, and section 10 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :

1. An account under the title " Motor Tax Account " shall be opened in the name of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, at the National Land Bank, Limited.

2. The Motor Tax Account now operative at the Bank of Ireland as aforesaid shall be closed, and the balance appearing thereon shall be transferred to the said Motor Tax Account to be opened at the National Land Bank, Limited, as aforesaid.

3. All references contained in the Principal Order to the Motor Tax Account thereby directed to be opened at the Bank of England shall, subject and without prejudice to the provisions of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) be construed and take effect as references to the said Motor Tax Account to be opened at the National Land Bank as aforesaid.

4. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

5. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Road Vehicles (Motor Tax Account) Order, 1924.

Dublin,

This 29th day of August, 1924.

(Signed) T. M. HEALY,

Governor-General.