Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 5, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following:“(3) The collective citation “The Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2016” includes this Act and Part 5 of the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015.”.

The change being proposed to this citation of the Road Traffic Act is technical but necessary. The Bill currently says that the Road Traffic Act 1961 to 2014 and the current Bill shall be cited collectively as the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2016. It has since been drawn to my attention, however, that there is a collective citation in the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 according to which Part 5 of that Act and the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2014 are to be cited as the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015. This was missed earlier this year when the Public Transport Act 2016 cited the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2014 in section 8 of the Public Transport Act as the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2016. This creates an issue around whether the collective citation has unintentionally dropped from within its ambit Part 5 of the Vehicle Clamping Act. I have taken legal advice on this technicality and the proposed wording will ensure that nothing in the collective citation is lost.