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Ord. No. 45/77
Repeal and replacement of Part IVA.
ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
(5) With effect from the expiry of the vehicle licence in force at the commencement of this section in respect of a motor vehicle registered as a public car, the registration of that vehicle as a public car shall cease to have effect.".
5. Part IVA of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following—
Transport Tribunals' panel.
Powers of Transport Tribunal.
(Cap. 8.)
Practice and procedure of Transport Tribunal.
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"PART IVA
TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL
26A. (1) There shall be a panel from which members of Transport Tribunals, other than public officers, may be appointed under this Ordinance.
(2) The panel shall consist of such persons, not being public officers, as the Chief Secretary may appoint.
(3) The appointment of any person as a member of the panel shall have effect for not more than 3 years and a member of the panel shall be eligible for re-appointment. (4) A member of the panel may resign at any time by notice in writing to the Chief Secretary.
26B. (1) The chairman of a Transport Tribunal may by notice in writing summon any person to appear before the Tribunal to produce any document or to give evidence. (2) A Transport Tribunal may receive such evidence as it thinks fit, and neither the provisions of the Evidence Ordinance nor any other rule of law relating to the ad- missibility of evidence shall apply in the proceedings before the Tribunal.
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(3) Any question arising in proceedings before Transport Tribunal, not being a question relating to the practice and procedure of the Tribunal, shall, in the event of a difference between the members, be decided by the majority.
(4) Any person who being summoned to appear before a Transport Tribunal, refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to appear or to answer any question put to him by or with the consent of the Tribunal commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500 and to im- prisonment for 3 months:
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate himself and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Tribunal be entitled to the privileges to which he would be entitled if giving evidence before a court of justice.
(5) Any person who behaves in an insulting manner or uses any threatening or insulting expression to or in the presence of a Transport Tribunal commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
26C. (1) Save in so far as provision is made therefor in this Ordinance, the practice and procedure in and in connexion with any hearing before a Transport Tribunal shall be such as the chairman of the Tribunal may deter- mine.