The 2023 Act is a road safety measure and creates a new offence of driving a powered personal transporter while under the influence of an intoxicant. The amendment uses the existing offence and penalty relating to pedal cycles and broadens those provisions to include personal powered transporters.<\/p>\n
The 2023 amends section 130 of the Finance Act, 1992, by clarifying in the definition for \u201cmechanically propelled vehicle\u201d that this category does not include PPTs, and by inserting a definition for PPTs which cross- references the definition provided in section 3 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961. This amendment ensures cross-legislative alignment between the Finance Acts and the Road Traffic Acts 1961-2018.<\/p>\n
The 2023 Act amends provisions relating to the requirement to provide specimens of breath, blood or urine for testing after arrest on suspicion of intoxicated driving (section 12), requirement to provide a blood specimen when arrested on suspicion of certain offences involving drugs (section 13B), and obligation on a person involved in a road traffic incident and taken to hospital to provide a specimen of blood or urine for testing for intoxicants.<\/p>\n\n
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Personal Transporters and Pedal Cycles The 2023 Act amends the definition of \u201cdriving\u201d to apply its meaning to the use of powered personal transporters (PPTs) in the same fashion as it is applied to the use of bicyclAes and tricycles (riding). It provides a definition for e-bikes, which clearly differentiates between low-powered and high-powered models, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28580"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29204,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions\/29204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}