S.I. No. 285/1956:

TRAFFIC SIGNS (TEMPORARY AUTHORISATIONS) ORDER, 1956.

TRAFFIC SIGNS (TEMPORARY AUTHORISATIONS) ORDER, 1956.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946) as amended by section 36 of the Local Government Act, 1955 (No. 9 of 1955) hereby orders as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Temporary Authorisations) Order, 1956.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ) the following signs may be used as follows until the Minister otherwise determines or until the 31st day of December, 1958, whichever is the earlier :--

(a) Informative signs showing in black letters on a yellow or white field--

(i) the direction of and distance to a place, and (where shown) the route letter and number of a road ;

(ii) the direction to a place ;

(iii) the name of a village or town being entered, or next ahead on a route ;

(iv) the name of a county.

(b) An informative sign consisting of a rectangular plate showing in dark letters and markings on a light field or in light coloured letters and markings on a dark field the direction to a car park.

(c) Warning signs consisting of--

(i) a rectangular plate (which may be surmounted by a hollow red equilateral triangle) showing in a dark colour on a light field a warning of a hazard to be met ;

(ii) a rectangular plate showing in white letters on a red field the words " Road Works Ahead " or other words to indicate that there are road works ahead.

(d) Regulatory signs consisting of--

(i) an inverted hollow red equilateral triangle surrounded by a hollow red circle below which is placed a diamond-shaped plate showing in black on a white field a symbol indicating a minor road crossing a major road--to indicate that the road ahead is a major road, the traffic on which has the right of way over traffic approaching from the road on which the sign is provided ;

(ii) a sign of the same shape, colour and design as sign 203 in the Schedule to the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956, but having an overall diameter of eighteen inches and an oblique black bar four inches and a half wide--to indicate the end of a special speed limit ;

(iii) a sign of the same shape, colour and design as sign 211 in the Schedule to the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956, but having an overall diameter of eighteen inches, the figures being only six inches high--to indicate the existence of a special speed limit ;

(iv) a sign to indicate the extent of parking permitted on a public road, consisting of the letter P in white on a rectangular blue field (a small rectangular disc being added below, if necessary, showing in white letters on a blue field information regarding the periods for which parking is permitted) or a similar sign, having the letter P in black on a rectangular white field (with the disc added below if necessary) ;

(v) a sign to indicate that parking is prohibited, consisting of a red circle surrounding a blue, or partly blue and partly yellow field, on which is given in white letters, the advice that parking or waiting is prohibited or the extent of a prohibition as to parking.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this twenty-fourth day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-six.

PATRICK O'DONNELL,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order authorises the continuance in use until the Minister for Local Government otherwise determines or until 31st December, 1958 (whichever is the earlier) of certain traffic signs which are at present provided by road authorities and which are not in accordance with the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ).