Road Traffic Act 2016
Number 21 of 2016
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2016
REVISED
Updated to 25 November 2019
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Road Traffic Act 2016. 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 the Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Act 2019 (38/2019), enacted 19 November 2019, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Road Traffic Act 2016 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 582 of 2019), made 22 November 2019, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 21 of 2016
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2016
REVISED
Updated to 25 November 2019
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2018: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be read together as one (Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 (18/2016), s. 6(3)). The Acts in the group are:
• Road Traffic Act 1961 (24/1961)
• Road Traffic Act 1968 (25/1968)
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1973 (15/1973) (repealed)
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1978 (19/1978) (repealed)
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1984 (16/1984)
• Dublin Transport Authority (Dissolution) Act 1987 (34/1987), insofar as it amends the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 1984
• Road Traffic Act 1994 (7/1994)
• Road Traffic Act 1995 (7/1995) (repealed)
• Road Traffic Act 2002 (12/2002)
• Road Traffic Act 2003 (37/2003) (repealed)
• Road Traffic Act 2004 (44/2004), other than Part 6
• Railway Safety Act 2005 (31/2005), Part 17
• Road Traffic Act 2006 (23/2006), other than s. 21
• Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006 (28/2006), s. 1 (repealed)
• Roads Act 2007 (34/2007), s. 12
• Road Traffic Act 2010 (25/2010)
• Road Traffic Act 2011 (7/2011)
• Road Traffic (No. 2) Act 2011 (28/2011)
• Taxi Regulation Act 2013 (37/2013), Part 11 (citation only)
• Road Traffic Act 2014 (3/2014)
• Road Traffic (No. 2) Act 2014 (39/2014)
• Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 (13/2015), Part 5 (citation only)
• Public Transport Act 2016 (3/2016), s. 8
• Road Traffic Act 2016 (21/2016) (citation only)
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 (18/2018)
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
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 1972, 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
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 (18/2018)
All Acts up to and including Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Act 2019 (38/2019), enacted 19 November 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Road Traffic Act 2016 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 582 of 2019)
• Road Traffic Act 2016 (Sections 40 and 41) (Commencement) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 310 of 2017)
• Road Traffic Act 2016 (Part 5 and section 36(d)) (Commencement) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 242 of 2017)
• Road Traffic Act 2016 (Commencement) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 129 of 2017)
All statutory instruments up to and including Road Traffic Act 2016 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 582 of 2019), made 22 November 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 21 of 2016
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2016
REVISED
Updated to 25 November 2019
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, commencement, collective citation and construction
Register of Written-Off Vehicles
4. Vehicle insurer obligations
5. Offence of failure to notify
6. Publication of information provided by vehicle insurers
Intoxicated Driving Offences - Driving Under the Influence of Drugs
7. Amendment of section 3(1) of Act of 2010 - definitions
8. Amendment of sections 4 and 5 of Act of 2010 - offences involving certain drugs
9. Amendment of section 7(a) of Act of 2010 - power of entry
10. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2010 - obligation to provide preliminary oral fluid specimen
11. Mandatory intoxicant testing
14. Amendment of section 17(1) of Act of 2010 - analysis of specimen by Bureau
16. Amendment of section 19(1) of Act of 2010 - written statement by member of Garda Síochána
17. Amendment of section 20 of Act of 2010 - presumptions relating to designated doctor or nurse
18. Amendment of section 21(1) of Act of 2010 - costs of prosecutions
20. Amendment of section 26 of Act of 2010 - functions of Bureau
21. Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act - consequential disqualification
Speed Limits
22. Amendment of section 9 of Road Traffic Act 2004 - special speed limits
Amendment of Part 3 of the Road Traffic Act 2010
24. Amendment of section 35 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge notice - service
25. Amendment of section 36 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge notice - form
26. Amendment of section 37 of Act of 2010 - payment of fixed charge
27. Payment of fixed charge notice on service of summons
29. Fixed charge offences - transitional provisions
Miscellaneous Amendments - Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015
30. Amendment of section 78A of Principal Act - details of motor insurance policies to be provided
33. Amendment of section 22 of Road Traffic Act 2002
34. Amendment of First Schedule to Road Traffic Act 2002 - penalty points
35. Amendment of Part 4 of First Schedule to Road Traffic Act 2002 - penalty points
36. Amendment of Part 3 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge offences
37. Amendment of section 4 of Vehicle Clamping Act 2015
38. Amendment of section 50 of Act of 2010 - payment deposit
39. Learner Driver driving unaccompanied (Owner) (Repealed)
Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications Between Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
40. Disqualification pursuant to Agreement between State and United Kingdom
41. Repeal of section 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, Road Traffic Act 2002
Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications Between Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Acts Referred to
Civil Service Commissioners Act 1956 (No. 45)
Courts (No. 3) Act 1986 (No. 33)
European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27)
Finance Act 1976 (No. 16)
Finance Act 1992 (No. 9)
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c. 93)
Probation of Offenders Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7 c. 17)
Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (No. 33)
Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012 (No. 16)
Road Traffic (No. 2) Act 2011 (No. 28)
Road Traffic Act 1961 (No. 24)
Road Traffic Act 2002 (No. 12)
Road Traffic Act 2004 (No. 44)
Road Traffic Act 2010 (No. 25)
Road Traffic Act 2014 (No. 3)
Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015
Road Transport Act 1933 (No. 8)
Roads Act 2007 (No. 34)
Roads Acts 1993 to 2015
Taxi Regulation Act 2013 (No. 37)
Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 (No. 13)
Number 21 of 2016
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2016
REVISED
Updated to 25 November 2019
An Act to amend and extend the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015, to amend the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015, to give effect to the Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications between the State and the United Kingdom done at Dublin on 30 October 2015 and to provide for related matters.
[27th December, 2016]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: