S.I. No. 318/1956:

CORK TRAFFIC (PARKING AND WAITING) (AMENDMENT) BYE-LAWS, 1956

CORK TRAFFIC (PARKING AND WAITING) (AMENDMENT) BYE-LAWS, 1956

WHEREAS the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána has before making the bye-laws hereinafter set forth, consulted the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork in regard thereto :

NOW, I, DANIEL COSTIGAN, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 150 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), hereby, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, testified by his official seal affixed hereto, make the following bye-laws in respect of the area consisting of the County Borough of Cork, that is to say :--

1.--(1) These bye-laws may be cited as the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) (Amendment) Bye-Laws. 1956.

(2) The principal bye-laws and these bye-laws may be cited together as the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Bye-Laws, 1939 to 1956.

2. In these bye-laws " the principal bye-laws " means the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Bye-Laws, 1939 ( S. R. & O. No. 112 of 1939 ), as amended by the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) (Amendment) Bye-Laws, 1949 ( S.I. No. 174 of 1949 ), and the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) (Amendment) Bye-Laws, 1951 ( S.I. No. 331 of 1951 ).

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to these bye-laws.

4. Bye-Law 13 of the principal bye-laws is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following paragraph :

" (g) wherever a roadway crosses or enters another roadway and the traffic at the junction of such roadways is controlled by mechanical signals operated by road detector pads, no person shall keep any vehicle waiting for any purpose or time (other than bona fide awaiting permission from such signals to proceed and for so long only as is bona fide necessary for that purpose) wholly or partly within any of the spaces on such roadways the boundaries of which (whether wholly or partly marked on the roadway or not so marked at all) are as follows, that is to say :--

(i) a side of any of such roadways on or adjacent to which a standard or other support carrying lamps forming part of the mechanical signals is situate, and

(ii) a line from such standard or other support to the centre line of such roadway in a direction at right angles to the said side of such roadway, and

(iii) the centre line of such roadway, and

(iv) a line from a point on the said side of such roadway to the centre line thereof in a direction at right angles to the said side, such point being situate twenty feet (measured along the said side and in the direction away from such standard or other support) from the road detector pad in such roadway which would ordinarily be crossed by traffic approaching the standard or other support along such roadway between the said side thereof and the centre line thereof."

5. The principal bye-laws are hereby amended by the insertion after Bye-law 13 of the following new bye-law :

" 13A. No person shall keep or leave a vehicle stationary either wholly or partly on a footway in the County Borough."

6. The Fifth Schedule to the principal bye-laws is hereby amended by the addition thereto in columns (1), (2), (3) and (4), of the matter contained in columns (1), (2), (3) and (4), respectively, of the First Schedule to these bye-laws.

7. The Sixth Schedule to the principal bye-laws is hereby amended by the addition thereto, in columns (1), (2), and (3), of the matter contained in columns (1), (2) and (3), respectively, of the Second Schedule to these bye-laws.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

GIVEN under my hand this 31st day of October, 1956.

(Signed) D. COSTIGAN,

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána:

WHEREAS in pursuance of section 8 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 , the Commissioner has submitted the foregoing bye-laws to the Minister for Local Government ; AND WHEREAS the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (5) of the said section 8 have been complied with in relation to the said bye-laws ; NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 150 of the said Act, hereby consents to the making of the said bye-laws.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government, this 17th day of December, 1956.

(Signed) PATRICK O'DONNELL,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These bye-laws amend the Cork Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Bye-Laws, 1939, 1949, and 1951, as follows :--

(1) It is forbidden to keep a vehicle waiting at traffic light signals (apart from compliance with the signals) in the space between the signals and a point twenty feet on the approach side of the road detector pads. (Bye-Law 4.)

(2) It is forbidden to park a motor vehicle wholly or partly on a footway. (Bye-Law 5.)

(3) Alternating waiting is introduced in the portion of Patrick Street mentioned in column 2 of the First Schedule. (Bye-Law 6.)

(4) Waiting is prohibited in the streets mentioned in column 2 of the Second Schedule on the sides mentioned in column 3.