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Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943
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##### 17. Insurance by visiting motorists
Subject to section 3(4), no temporary licence in respect of any motor vehicle of a person visiting the State shall be granted unless, in the opinion of the authority to which application for such temporary licence is made, that person is adequately insured against any liability which may be incurred by him in respect of the death of or bodily injury to any person directly caused by, or by the driving of, that motor vehicle in the State.
[Section 17 amended: No. 31 of 1948 s. 19; No. 107 of 1987 s. 14; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]