S.I. No. 121/1950:

ROAD VEHICLES (ADDITIONAL INDEX MARK) ORDER, 1950.

ROAD VEHICLES (ADDITIONAL INDEX MARK) ORDER, 1950.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Roads Act, 1920, provision was made by the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1921 (hereinafter called " the Principal Regulations "), amongst other things for the registration of mechanically propelled vehicles, and for allotting to each of the councils (being county councils as defined in the Roads Act, 1920) mentioned in the third schedule to the said regulations, the index mark or index marks shown for each such council in the said third schedule ;

AND WHEREAS the index mark allotted as aforesaid by the said regulations to the Council of the County of Galway (hereinafter referred to as " the Council ") consists of the letters IM.

AND WHEREAS the index marks allotted as aforesaid by the said regulations to the Council of the County Borough of Dublin (hereinafter called " the Corporation ") consist of the letters RI and YI :

AND WHEREAS by Orders dated the 13th day of November, 1926, the 9th day of February, 1932, the 11th day of January, 1937, the 20th day of September, 1939, the 1st day of Janurary, 1947, and the 18th day of August, 1948, the said regulations were amended so that additional marks consisting of the letters ZI, ZA, ZC, ZD, ZH and ZJ were allotted to the Corporation :

AND WHEREAS it is now expedient that further index marks should be allotted to the Council and the Corporation in addition to the index marks already allotted as aforesaid :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in him in that behalf, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :--

1. The principal Regulations shall apply and have effect as if--

(a) in addition to the index mark IM, there was allotted to the Council an index mark consisting of the letters ZM.

(b) in addition to the index marks RI, YI, ZI, ZA, ZC, ZD ZH and ZJ there was allotted to the Corporation an index mark consisting of the letters ZL.

2. Every reference in the Principal Regulations to the Council of the County of Galway or the index marks allotted to the said Council, shall be construed as including respectively a reference to the Council or to the index mark allotted to the Council by this Order.

3. Every reference in the Principal Regulations to the Council of the County Borough of Dublin or the index marks allotted to the said Council, shall be construed as including respectively a reference to the Corporation or to the index mark allotted to the Corporation by this Order.

4. This Order may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Additional Index Mark) Order, 1950.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this tenth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KEYES,

Minister for Local Government.