Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006
Number 28 of 2006
ROAD TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 4 October 2018
This revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Act 2018 (23/2018), enacted 3 October 2018, and all statutory instruments up to and including Road Transport (Operator's Licence Application) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 398 of 2018), made 4 October 2018, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 28 of 2006
ROAD TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 4 October 2018
Introduction
This revision presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was first passed.
Related legislation
Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2011: this Act is one of a group of Acts previously included in this collective citation (Road Traffic Act 2011, s. 5(3)). The provision of this Act included in the collective citation (s. 1) was repealed (28.10.2011) by Road Traffic Act 2010 (25/2010), s. 33(g), S.I. No. 544 of 2011.
This Act is one of a group of Acts to be construed together as one (Road Transport Act 2011 (31/2011), s. 23(2)). The Acts in this group are:
• Road Transport Act 1933 (8/1933)
• Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006 (28/2006), s. 2
• Road Transport Act 2011
Annotations
This revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions. A version without annotations, showing only textual amendments, is also available.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
www.lawreform.ie/annotations
Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1982, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at
www.irishstatutebook.ie.
Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016 (4/2016)
• Road Transport Act 2011 (31/2011)
• Road Traffic Act 2010 (25/2010)
• Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 (37/2009)
• Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 (15/2008)
All Acts up to and including Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Act 2018 (23/2018), enacted 3 October 2018, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Road Transport (Operator’s Licence Application) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 398 of 2018)
• European Union (Occupation of Road Transport Operator) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 697 of 2011)
• European Communities (Road Haulage and Road Passenger Transport Operator’s Licences) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 318 of 2009)
All statutory instruments up to and including Road Transport (Operator’s Licence Application) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 398 of 2018), made 4 October 2018, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 28 of 2006
ROAD TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 4 October 2018
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Obligation to provide specimen following arrest, etc.
2. Road haulage and road passenger transport operators’ licences.
Acts Referred to
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1972, No. 27 |
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1985, No. 18 |
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Road Traffic Act 1994 |
1994, No. 7 |
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2006, No. 23 |
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Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2006 |
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1933, No. 8 |
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1986, No. 16 |
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1999, No. 15 |
Number 28 of 2006
ROAD TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 4 October 2018
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND PART III OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1994 AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT TO GRANT LICENCES TO ROAD HAULAGE AND ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT OPERATORS AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS.
[4th October, 2006]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Application of Act extended (4.12.2011) by European Union (Occupation of Road Transport Operator) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 697 of 2011), reg. 4.
4. An operator’s licence under the Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006 constitutes an authorisation for engaging in the occupation of road haulage operator or road passenger transport operator, as the case may be, for the purposes of the EU Regulation.