Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997

Restrictions on Parking Heavy Goods Vehicles

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38. (1) (a) Where traffic sign number RUS 019 [Prohibition on Parking] is provided at the entrance to an area in association with an information plate containing a symbol to indicate a large vehicle, a vehicle whose F42[maximum design gross vehicle weight] exceeds the weight specified on the information plate, shall not be parked in the said area.

(b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply to a large vehicle parked while goods are being loaded in or on to it or unloaded from it, for a period not exceeding thirty minutes from the commencement of the parking.

(2) The end of the prohibition provided for in sub-article (1) shall be indicated by traffic sign number RUS 019 accompanied by an information plate containing a symbol to indicate a large vehicle and the word "END/CRIOCH".

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Substituted (1.10.2013) by Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 332 of 2012), reg. 16(o), in effect as per reg. 2(3).