Loughrea Parking Temporary Rules, 1968.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: Short title.
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paragraphs: Commencement.
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paragraphs: Interpretation.
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paragraphs: Parking places.
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paragraphs: Parking restrictions in portions of certain streets.
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paragraphs: Parking prohibitions in portions of certain streets at specified times.
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paragraphs: Temporary restrictions on parking in certain streets.
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paragraphs: General restrictions on parking.
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paragraphs: Parking at Bus Stops and Stands.
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paragraphs: Savers.
S.I. No. 122 of 1968.
LOUGHREA PARKING TEMPORARY RULES, 1968.
I, PATRICK CARROLL, Commissioner of the Garda SÃ­ochÃ¡na, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 90 (7) and 90 (8) of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961), and with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, hereby make the following temporary rules in respect of the area comprising the town of Loughrea:—
1 Short title.
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paragraphs: These rules may be cited as the Loughrea Parking Temporary Rules, 1968.
2 Commencement.
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paragraphs: These rules shall come into operation on the 11th day of June, 1968.
3 Interpretation.
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paragraphs: (1) In these rules—
"the Act" means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961);
"cycle track" means a part of a road designed for use only by pedal cycles, and in respect of which there is a traffic sign indicating that it is a cycle track;
"holiday" means any of the following days—
St. Patrick's Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the following Monday
Good Friday,
Easter Monday,
the first Monday in June,
the first Monday in August,
Christmas Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the 27th December,
St. Stephen's Day or, if it falls on a Sunday, the following Monday,
or, whenever a day is appointed under the Public Holidays Act, 1924 (No. 56 of 1924), to be a bank holiday instead of any of those days, the day so appointed;
"pedestrian crossing" means a crossing for pedestrians on a roadway, which is indicated by means of traffic signs of a type authorised by Article 9 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 171 of 1962 ) as amended by Article 3 of the Road Traffic (Signs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966 ( S.I. No. 233 of 1966 );
"pedestrian lights" means either of the types of mechanical signals authorised by Article 14 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962;
"the relevant hours" means—
(a) on a weekday other than Wednesday, the period from 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.,
(b) on a Wednesday, the period from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.;
"road inset" means part of a roadway specially inset in the footway or road verge so as to afford parking space for vehicles on a part of the roadway other than that normally used by traffic passing along that roadway;
"service road" means a road which is—
(a) parallel to a road (in these rules called a "through road") designed or intended to carry traffic going through a particular area or between two particular places, and
(b) constructed for traffic serving only a line of shops or houses set back from the through road;
"street" means a public road;
"traffic sign" has the meaning assigned to it by section 95 of the Act;
"traffic lights" means any of the types of mechanical signals authorised by Article 13 of the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations, 1962;
"weekday" means any day other than a Sunday or a holiday.
(2) In these rules a reference to goods being loaded into a vehicle shall be construed as including the supplying of fuel or oil for the operation of the vehicle.
(3) Every mention in these rules of the name of a street or other place shall be construed as referring to the street or place in the town of Loughrea which is known (whether by official name or by popular usage) by that name.
4 Parking places.
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paragraphs: (1) (a) In a street or portion of a street named in column (2) of the First and Second Schedules to these rules, any place delimited in column (3) of the said Schedules opposite the mention in the said column (2) of such street shall be a parking place.