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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 30, 1912.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 270.
Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 7 of the Vehicles Regulation Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 3 of 1899), on the 23rd day of August, 1912.
The Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government-in-Council under the above Ordinance and published in the Government Gazette of the 7th June, 1912, as Notification No. 193, are hereby amended as follows :-
Regulations Nos. 8, 18 and 19 are repealed and the following are sub
for repectively:-
8. No motor car which is licensed or used for livery shall be ridden or driven any. where in the Colony between the hours of 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. except for the purpose of Carrying a duly qualified medical practitioner to see a patient, or for the purpose of carrying a police officer on duty.
18.-(1.) No person shall drive any motor car within the City of Victoria at a higher speed than ten miles an hour.
hour.
(2.) No
person shall drive any heavy motor car at a higher speed than eight miles an Provided that the speed of a heavy motor car shall not exceed five miles an hour :-
(a.) If the weight of the heavy motor car unladen exceeds four tons, or
(b.) If the total weight of the load and of the heavy motor car unladen exceeds
six tons, or
(c.) If any one of the wheels of the heavy motor car is fitted with a tire which is
neither pneumatic nor of a soft or elastic material.
(3.) No person shall drive any motor car or heavy motor car on any street or road recklessly or negligently, or at a speed or in a manner which is dangerous to public, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the nature, condition, and use of the street or road, and to the amount of traffic which actually is at the time, or which might reasonably be expected to be, on the street or road.
(4.) Warning Signals, directing drivers of motor cars to go "slow" and "dead slow" respectively, shall be maintained at or near the positions specified in the following table and at such other positions as may from time to time be notified in the Gazette. Every driver of a motor car shall accordingly go "Slow"
," or
"Dead Slow", as the case may be, from such Warning Signal until he shall have passed the place of danger indicated by such Warn- ing Signal.
A RED SIGNAL
signifies a direction to go Slow.
A RED SIGNAL
signifies a direction to go Dead Slow,
Table.
No.
Position of Signal.
Speed.
1
Gap Road, top of hill,...
Slow.
2
Queen's Road Central, near the north-western corner of Murray
Barracks,....
Dead Slow.
00
Queen's Road Central, near the north-eastern corner of the
Parade Ground,
4 Garden Road, near the north-western corner of Murray Barracks,
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Do.
Do.
2