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S.I. No. 162/1987 - Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Sligo) Regulations, 1987

Type Statutory Instrument
Publication 1987-06-23
Last updated 1994-01-31
State Repealed superseded text
Text As published
Source Irish Statute Book
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This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

1 amending act · 1994-01-31, S.I. No. 15/1994 - Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Sligo) Regulations, 1994

Reform history JSON API

S.I. No. 162 of 1987.

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF SLIGO) REGULATIONS, 1987.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and section 46 of the said Act as amended by the Road Traffic Act, 1968 (No. 25 of 1968) hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1 Citation.

1.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Sligo) Regulations, 1987.

2 Commencement.

2.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 6th day of July, 1987.

3 Interpretation.

3.

3. In these Regulations save where the context otherwise requires—

"the Act" means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 ;

"built-up area speed limit" and "special speed limit" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in Part IV of the Act;

"distance" means distance as measured along the centre line of a road;

"National Road" means a road declared to be a National Road in the Local Government (Roads and motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1977 ) and any reference to the number of such road shall be a reference to the number of such road as shown in column I of the First Schedule or column 1 of the Second Schedule to the aforementioned Order;

"road" means a public road.

4 Built-up area speed limit.

4.

4. (1) Each of the roads described in the First Schedule to these Regulations is hereby declared not to be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Act.

5 Special speed limit.

5.

5. Forty miles per hour shall be the speed limit for mechanically propelled vehicles in the roads specified in the Third Schedule to these Regulations.

6 Exceptions.

6.

6. There shall be excepted from the special speed limit prescribed in article 5 of these Regulations and from the built-up area speed limit the following:—

7 Revocation.

7.

7. The Road Traffic (County of Sligo) (Speed Limits) Regulations 1979 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1979 ) are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Roads in the County of Sligo declared not to be public roads in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Act.

1.

The following roads in the Borough of Sligo:—

SECOND SCHEDULE

Roads in the County of Sligo declared to be public roads in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Act.

1.

The following roads at Ballymote:—

2.

The following roads at Ballintogher:—

3.

The following roads at Ballysodare (Ballisodare):—

4.

The following roads at Bellaghy:—

5.

The following roads at Collooney:—

6.

The following roads at Coolaney:—

7.

The following roads at Dromore West:—

8.

8.

The following roads at Easkey:—

9.

9.

The following roads at Gorteen:—

10.

10.

The following roads at Grange:—

11.

11.

The following roads at Inishcrone (Enniscrone):—

12.

12.

The following roads at Riverstown:—

13.

13.

The following roads at Rosses Point:—

14.

14.

The following roads adjacent to the Borough of Sligo:—

15.

15.

The following roads at Strandhill:—

16.

16.

The following roads at Tobercurry:—

THIRD SCHEDULE

Roads in the County of Sligo in respect of which a special speed limit of 40 miles per hour is prescribed.

1.

The following road at Ballynacarrow:—

The Sligo-Galway road (National Road N17) between a point 420 metres north-east of its junction with the Rathnarrow Road and a point 205 metres south-west of the said junction.

2.

The following roads at Ballinafad:—

3.

The following road at Ballymote:—

The Tobercurry Road between a point 155 metres between its junction with the Sligo Road and a point 825 metres from the said junction.

4.

The following roads at Castlebaldwin:—

5.

The following roads at Cliffoney.—

6.

The following roads at Collooney:—

7.

The following roads at Curry:—

8.

The following roads at Dromore West:—

9.

The following road at Rathcormack:—

The Sligo-Bundoran road (National Road N15) between a point 140 metres east of its junction with the Rosses Point Road and a point 295 metres north-west of its junction with the Clooneen Road.

10.

The following roads in and adjacent to the Borough of Sligo:—

11.

The following roads at Strandhill:—

12.

The following roads at Tobercurry:—

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment this 23rd day

of June, 1987.

PADRAIG FLYNN,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations replace the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Sligo) Regulations, 1979 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1979 ) and alter the speed limits applicable to certain roads in the area.

The Regulations exclude the public roads mentioned in the First Schedule from the scope of the built-up area speed limit prescribed by section 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , and declare the public roads mentioned in the Second Schedule to be subject to that speed limit.

The regulations also prescribe a speed limit of 40 miles per hour in respect of the public roads mentioned in the Third Schedule.

Ambulances, fire brigade vehicles and vehicles used by the Garda Síochána in the course of duty are exempted from all speed limits by the Regulations.

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