Road Traffic Act 2016 (No. 21)

Version status: Partly in force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes

Published date: 27 December 2016

Road Traffic Act 2016 (No. 21)

	Introductory Text
	Acts Referred to
	Part 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-2)
	1. Short title, commencement, collective citation and construction
	2. Definitions
	Part 2 Register of Written-off Vehicles (ss. 3-6)
	3. Definition - Part 2
	4. Vehicle insurer obligations
	5. Offence of failure to notify
	6. Publication of information provided by vehicle insurers
	Part 3 Intoxicated Driving Offences - Driving under the Influence of Drugs (ss. 7-21)
	7. Amendment of section 3(1) of Act of 2010 - definitions
	8. Amendment of sections 4 and 5 of Act of 2010 - offences involving certain drugs
	9. Amendment of section 7(a) of Act of 2010 - power of entry
	10. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2010 - obligation to provide preliminary oral fluid specimen
	11. Mandatory intoxicant testing
	12. Impairment testing
	13. Amendment of Act of 2010 - obligation to provide specimens in relation to certain offences involving drugs
	14. Amendment of section 17(1) of Act of 2010 - analysis of specimen by Bureau
	15. Amendment of section 18 of Act of 2010 - provisions regarding certain evidence in prosecutions - presumption
	16. Amendment of section 19(1) of Act of 2010 - written statement by member of Garda Síochána
	17. Amendment of section 20 of Act of 2010 - presumptions relating to designated doctor or nurse
	18. Amendment of section 21(1) of Act of 2010 - costs of prosecutions
	19. Amendment of section 22 of Act of 2010 - defence to refusal to permit taking of specimen of blood
	20. Amendment of section 26 of Act of 2010 - functions of Bureau
	21. Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act - consequential disqualification
	Part 4 Speed Limits (s. 22)
	22. Amendment of section 9 of Road Traffic Act 2004 - special speed limits
	Part 5 Amendment of Part 3 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 (ss. 23-29)
	23. Fixed charge offences
	24. Amendment of section 35 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge notice - service
	25. Amendment of section 36 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge notice - form
	26. Amendment of section 37 of Act of 2010 - payment of fixed charge
	27. Payment of fixed charge notice on service of summons
	28. Interpretation
	29. Fixed charge offences - transitional provisions
	Part 6 Miscellaneous Amendments - Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2015 (ss. 30-39)
	30. Amendment of section 78A of Principal Act - details of motor insurance policies to be provided
	31. Regulation of Rickshaws
	32. Amendment of section 107 of Principal Act - obligation on cyclists to give name and address etc. on demand to member of Garda Síochána
	33. Amendment of section 22 of Road Traffic Act 2002
	34. Amendment of First Schedule to Road Traffic Act 2002 - penalty points
	35. Amendment of Part 4 of First Schedule to Road Traffic Act 2002 - penalty points
	36. Amendment of Part 3 of Act of 2010 - fixed charge offences
	37. Amendment of section 4 of Vehicle Clamping Act 2015
	38. Amendment of section 50 of Act of 2010 - payment deposit
	39. Learner Driver driving unaccompanied (Owner)
	Part 7 Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications between Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ss. 40-41)
	40. Disqualification pursuant to Agreement between State and United Kingdom
	41. Repeal of section 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, Road Traffic Act 2002
	Schedule - Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications between Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland