S.I. No. 273/1983:

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and section 82 of that Act as amended by section 57 of the Road Traffic Act, 1968 (No. 25 of 1968) hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

(2) The Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1981 and these Regulations shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 to 1983.

2. Article 3 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 191 of 1963 ) is hereby amended by the substitution for sub-article (2) of the following sub-article:--

"(2) In these Regulations a reference to the use of a vehicle as a public hire vehicle shall be construed as a reference to the use of a small public service vehicle--

(a) by standing the vehicle for hire at an appointed stand or by using the vehicle in pursuance of a contract of hiring made at an appointed stand with the driver for the immediate hire of the driver and the vehicle for the carriage of persons for reward,

(b) by the driver offering, in a public place in a taximeter area, himself and the vehicle for immediate hire for the carriage of persons for reward,

(c) so that the driver stands or drives the vehicle in a public place in a taximeter area for the purpose of being immediately hired with the vehicle for the carriage of persons for reward,

(d) so that the vehicle and the driver are hired in a public place in a taximeter area for the carriage of persons for reward on the terms that the hiring is to commence immediately,

(e) in pursuance of a contract of hiring made in a public place in a taximeter area with the driver for the immediate hire of the driver and the vehicle for the carriage of persons for reward, or

(f) in pursuance of a contract of hiring for the carriage of persons for reward, other than in connection with the funeral of a deceased person, initiated or facilitated by means of a telephonic or radio communication with the vehicle while such vehicle is in a public place in a taximeter area."

3. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 28th day of September, 1983.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment,

this 28th day of September, 1983.

DICK SPRING,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations re-state article 3 (2) of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963 with the additional provision that hackney (as distinct from taxi) hirings within a taximeter area, other than in connection with the funeral of a deceased person, may not be initiated or facilitated by means of telephone or radio communication with the vehicle while this is in a public place.