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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 4, 1921.
Short title and
construction.
Ordinance No. 40 of 1912.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 40 of 1912, s. 2.
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 40 of 1912, s. 3.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 40 of 1912. s. 4.
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HONGKONG.
No. 4 or 1921.
I assent to this Ordinance.
R. E. STUBBS,
Governor.
4th March, 1921.
An Ordinance to amend the Vehicles and
Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912.
4th March, 1921.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1921, and shall be read and construed as one with the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance may be eited together as the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinances, 1912 and 1921.
2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof :-
(0)
Motor Vehicle' means a vehicle propelled by mechanical power.
3. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended as follows:-
(a) by the insertion of the following paragraph immediately after the eighth paragraph thereof :-
(9) for granting exclusive rights of main- taining services of public motor vehicles, for enforcing the obligations of any persons to whom such rights may be granted, for requiring security from such persons and for realising such security, for the amendment or cancellation of such rights when granted, for prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of such rights and for the effective control and protection of such services;
(b) by the renumbering of paragraph (9) as para-
graph (10).
4. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the figures and words 50 dollars or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 months" in the third and fourth lines thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for auy term not exceeding six months".
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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd day of March, 1921.
S. B. B. McELDERRY, Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 4th
day of March, 1921.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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