S.I. No. 247/1978:

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1978.

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1978.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 82 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1978.

(2) The Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1978 and these Regulations shall be construed together and the expression the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1978 shall include these Regulations.

2. The Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 268 of 1977 ) and the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1977 ) are hereby revoked.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1978, on and after the date of the making of these Regulations an application by a person for the grant of a small public service vehicle licence in respect of the use of a vehicle as a public hire vehicle may be made only in the period from the second to the sixteenth day inclusive of the month of October 1978 and in the period from the first to the fourteenth day inclusive of the month of September in any subsequent year unless the application is made by a person who at any time in the period of twelve months preceding the date of application held such a licence in respect of a vehicle, and the application is made for the purpose of licensing the said vehicle or another vehicle to replace the said vehicle and the licence in respect of the said vehicle has ceased to be in force through effluxion of time or shall have been surrendered or revoked on or before the grant of the licence for which application is made.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment

this 31st day of August, 1978.

SYLVESTER BARRETT,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of the Regulations is to substitute the period 2nd to 16th October 1978 for the period 1st to 14th September 1978 as the licensing period for public hire vehicles (taxis).