S.I. No. 116/1965:

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965.

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 46 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961), after consultation with the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and the road authority concerned hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1965.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the expression "the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963 and 1965".

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1965.

3. The Third Schedule to the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963, is hereby amended by the substitution at reference 1 (c) under the heading "County Borough of Dublin and County of Dublin" of--

"The Howth Road between

(i) a point 65 yards east of its junction with Brookwood Avenue and a point 50 yards south-west of its junction with Watermill Road and

(ii) a point 45 yards east of its junction with St. Assam's Road East and a point 150 yards west of its junction with the West Pier, Howth".

for the matter at the said reference.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local

Government this twenty-sixth day of May, 1965.

NEIL T. BLANEY

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963, ( S.I. No. 18 of 1963 ), by removing the reference to the Raheny section of the Howth Road, Dublin City, from the list of roads to which a speed limit of 40 m.p.h. applies; a limit of 30 m.p.h. will then apply to this section of road.