S.I. No. 306/1961:

TRAFFIC SIGNS (TEMPORARY AUTHORISATIONS) ORDER, 1961.

TRAFFIC SIGNS (TEMPORARY AUTHORISATIONS) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946) as amended by section 36 of the Local Government Act, 1955 (No. 9 of 1955) hereby orders as follows:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Temporary Authorisations) Order, 1961.

2. Article 2 of the Traffic Signs (Temporary Authorisations) Order, 1956 ( S.I. No. 285 of 1956 ) as amended by article 2 of the Traffic Signs (Temporary Authorisations) Order, 1956 (Amendment) Order, 1960 ( S.I. No. 275 of 1960 ) shall be amended by the substitution of "the 31st day of December, 1962" for "the 31st day of December, 1961".

3.--(1) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of article 2 of the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 1961 ( S.I. No. 67 of 1961 ), the traffic sign prescribed in article 5 and section A of Part III of the Schedule to the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ) may be used to indicate that the road ahead is a major road, the traffic on which has the right of way over traffic approaching from the road on which the sign is provided.

(2) The traffic sign referred to in this article may be used until the Minister otherwise determines or until the 31st day of December, 1962, whichever is the earlier.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this twenty-seventh

day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to authorise the continuance in use until the Minister for Local Government otherwise determines or until the 31st December, 1962 (whichever is the earlier) of certain traffic signs which are at present provided by road authorities and which are not in accordance with the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ), and of the Major Road Ahead Sign (No. 201) as prescribed in the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ).