Roads Act 2007
Number 34 of 2007
Roads Act 2007
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Roads Act 2007. 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.
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Number 34 of 2007
Roads Act 2007
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Amendment of Roads Act 1993
Acts Referred to
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1995, No. 24 |
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1987, No. 34 |
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1952, No. 24 |
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1992, No. 28 |
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1992, No. 9 |
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1993, No. 13 |
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1994, No. 13 |
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2003, No. 3 |
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Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2005 |
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1975, No. 14 |
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2001, No. 37 |
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2003, No. 5 |
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Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006 |
2006, No. 27 |
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2000, No. 30 |
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Roads Act 1920 |
1920, c. 72 |
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1993, No. 14 |
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Roads Acts 1993 to 2001 |
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1961, No. 24 |
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1994, No. 7 |
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2002, No. 12 |
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2004, No. 44 |
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2006, No. 23 |
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Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2006 |
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State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002 |
2002, No. 1 |
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2003, No. 25 |
Number 34 of 2007
Roads Act 2007
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE ROADS ACTS 1993 TO 2001, THE TAXI REGULATION ACT 2003 AND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS 1961 TO 2006 AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS. [11th July, 2007]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C1
Certain references in Act construed (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), ss. 9(2)(3), 25(2), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.
Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas
9. —...
(2) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed, in any enactment—
(a) to a county council or a city council (including a reference construed by section 3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a county council or to a city council, as the case may be) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council or a city and county council, and
(b) to a county council and a city council (including a reference so construed) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council and a city and county council.
(3) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed, in any enactment—
(a) to the administrative area of a county council or the administrative area of a city council shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to the administrative area of a county council, the administrative area of a city council or the administrative area of a city and county council, and
(b) to the administrative area of a county council and the administrative area of a city council shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to the administrative area of a county council, the administrative area of a city council and the administrative area of a city and county council.
Dissolution of town councils — consequential provisions
25.— ...
(2) A function of a town council (including a reference construed by section 3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a town council and whether of general application to town councils or otherwise under an enactment) that—
(a) has not been repealed or otherwise provided for by this Act, or
(b) is neither spent nor obsolete,
shall, if the context permits in respect of one or more than one town council concerned, be read as a reference to a function of the local authority in whose administrative area the town council so dissolved is situated.
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Term “Commissioner” construed for purposes of collectively cited Roads Acts 1993 to 2007 (1.06.2011) by Road Traffic Act 2010 (25/2010), s. 83(1), S.I. No. 255 of 2011.
Functions of Commissioner of Garda Síochána.
83.— (1) Any reference to the Commissioner in the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010 or the Roads Acts 1993 to 2007 is to be read as a reference to the Commissioner or another member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of Chief Superintendent authorised by the Commissioner to act or carry out a function or requirement on his or her behalf.
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