Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 51:

In page 39, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(a) by the substitution of “Road Traffic Act 1961 to 2022”—

(i) for “Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010” where it occurs in sections 20, 25, 61, 82 and 87,

(ii) for “Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2011” in section 9(1)(b), and

(iii) for “Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2016” in sections 10 and 20,”.

This amendment is more substantial than the previous technical ones. It updates the collective citation of the Road Traffic Acts in a number of places in the Road Traffic Act 2010. This is being done because these specific places involve Garda powers, and the legal advice is that we need to update the citations in these places. Some of them currently refer to the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010. That original Road Traffic Act 1961 has been amended many times in the past five decades and more of its existence, including amendments made post 2010. In some of those previous updates, therefore, the citation, in the context of the Garda charging people under the legislation, could be to powers under the Road Traffic Act 2016, as amended by the Road Traffic Act 2010, for example. Some previous updates could refer to the Road Traffic Acts from 1961 to 2016.We have not updated every collective citation. That would be a significant task. We are seeking to ensure that we have a proper citation approach for An Garda Síochána in the implementation of the Road Traffic Acts.