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Powers to authorities to inspect cars, etc.

Penalty for using electric power contrary to Ordinance.

Rules.

9 of 1950, Schedule.

Tramway.

30. The Director, or any officer appointed for that purpose by the Governor in writing, may inspect any car used on the tramway and the machinery therein and any wires or other machinery of the company and report thereon, and the Governor may (after receiving from the company and considering its report on the matter) by order prohibit the use of any such car, wires or machinery as may be determined to be unsafe or unfit for use.

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31. The company or any person using electric power on the tramway contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, or to any of the rules under section 28, shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars, and also in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of ten dollars for every day after the first during which such offence continues.

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Rules.

32. (1) The Governor in Council may make rules—

(a) regulating the working of the tramway;

(b) regulating the use of the warning apparatus affixed to the cars;

(c) providing that the cars shall be brought to a stand at such places and in such cases of impending danger as the Governor in Council may deem proper for securing safety;

(d) regulating the entrance to, exit from and accommodation in the cars, and the protection of passengers from the machinery of any car used on the tramway;

(e) regulating the rate of speed of the cars:

Provided that the speed on the portions of the route west of Causeway Road shall not (unless another rate be authorized by the Governor in Council under the authority of this paragraph) exceed the rate of fifteen miles per hour, and in Causeway Road and on the portion of the route east thereof shall not exceed the rate of twenty miles per hour: Provided

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