No. 229/1946:

CORK TAXIMETER AREA FARE BYE-LAWS, 1946.

CORK TAXIMETER AREA FARE BYE-LAWS, 1946.

I, MICHAEL J. KINNANE, Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 139 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby, after consultation with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, the Council of the County of Cork and the Urban Council of Passage West and with the consent of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health testified by his official seal affixed hereto, make the following bye-laws:—

1.—(1) These Bye-laws may be cited as the Cork Taximeter Area Fare Bye-laws, 1946.

(2) The Cork Taximeter Area Fare Bye-laws, 1939 (S. R. & O., No. 107 of 1939), and these Bye-laws may be cited together as the Cork Taximeter Area Fare By-laws, 1939 and 1946.

2. The Cork Taximeter Area Fare Bye-laws, 1939 (S. R. & O., No. 107 of 1939), are hereby amended—

(i) by the insertion in paragraph (a) of bye-law 4 of the words " and three pence " after the words " one shilling,"

(ii) by the insertion in paragraph (b) of bye-law 4 of the words " three farthings " after the words " three pence " wherever the latter words occur,

(iii) by the addition at the end of the Schedule of the Note set out in the Schedule to these Bye-laws.

SCHEDULE.

NOTE AS TO INCREASE OF RATES FOR TIME AND DISTANCE CHARGES.

By the Cork Taximeter Area Fare Bye-laws, 1946, the rates for time and distance charges have been increased by one-fourth and accordingly the proper fare in respect of those charges is that recorded on the taximeter increased by one-fourth. The extra payments in respect of additional passengers and luggage have not been changed.

GIVEN under my hand, this, 31st day of July, 1946.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KINNANE,

Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána.

WHEREAS in pursuance of section 8 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána has submitted the foregoing bye-laws to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health :

AND WHEREAS the provisions of subsections (1) and (5) of that section have been complied with in relation to the said bye-laws :

NOW, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 139 of the said Act, hereby consents to the making of the said bye-laws.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, this 14th day of September, 1946.

(Signed) SEÁN MACENTEE.

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.