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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1932.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
No. 50.
Hong Kong.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912, Ordinance No. 40 of 1912, on the 12th day of January, 1932.
The Traffic Regulations set forth on pages 617-654 and part of page 655 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844- 1925, amended as appears in Government Notifications Nos. 368 of 1926, 331 of 1927, 586 of 1928, 27, 334, 553 and 653 of 1929, 218, 376 and 518 of 1930 and 13, 78, 524 and 602 of 1931, are hereby rescinded and the follow- ing regulations are substituted therefor
In these regulations,
PART I.
Interpretation.
(a) "Cart" means any wheeled vehicle, not being one otherwise specifically designated, which is con- structed or adapted for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of husbandry, trade or business.
(b) "Commercial motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is constructed or adapted for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of husbandry, trade or business.
(c) "Conductor" includes a person other than a driver whose duty it is to attend upon passengers in a motor omnibus.
(d) "Driver" includes a rider of a bicycle or tricycle, a puller of a jinrikisha, a bearer of a chair, and any person in charge of or assisting in the control of any vehicle; "drive", in relation to a driver, includes pull, draw and bear.
(e) "Motor bicycle" includes any two-wheeled vehicle propelled by mechanical power which does not unladen exceed in weight three hundred-weight. (f) "Motor cab" means any motor vehicle which stands or plies for hire and in which the passengers or any of them are not charged to pay separate and distinct fares, or at the rate of separate and distinct fares, for their respective places or seats therein, but the amount indicated by a taximeter.
(g) "Motor omnibus" means any motor vehicle which stands or plies for hire or is used to carry passengers at separate fares to, from or in any part of the Colony.
(h) "Motor tricycle" includes any three-wheeled vehicle propelled by mechanical power which does not unladen exceed in weight three hundred weight.
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