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Transfer to Minister of functions of Commissioner of Garda Síochána under section 86 of Principal Act.
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58.—Section 86 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—
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(a) by the substitution for “The Commissioner may, with the consent of the Minister, make bye-laws” in subsection (2) of “The Minister may make regulations”,
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(b) by the substitution of “regulations” for “bye-laws” in subsection (3),
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(c) by the substitution of “regulation” for “bye-law” in subsections (4) and (6), and
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(d) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):
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“(5) Where a person uses a mechanically propelled vehicle other than an omnibus in contravention of a regulation under this section, each of the following persons shall be guilty of an offence:
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(a) the registered owner of the vehicle,
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(b) if the vehicle is the subject of a hire-drive agreement on the occasion in question, the hirer under the agreement, and
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(c) if the person using the vehicle on the occasion in question is not the registered owner or the hirer under a hire-drive agreement, the person so using the vehicle.”
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