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CAP. 374] Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations
[Subsidiary]
[1989 Ed.
(3) Subject to subregulation (8), the driver of a vehicle on a road shall not carry in the vehicle passengers in excess of the number specified in the registration document of that vehicle or permitted by an excess passengers permit issued under the Road Traffic (Registration and Licensing of Vehicles) Regulations (Cap. 374 sub. leg.). (L.N. 241 of 1985)
(4) The driver of a motor cycle on a road shall not carry on his motor cycle more than one passenger and when a side car is fitted to the motor cycle shall not carry any more passengers in the side car than the number of securely fixed seats in the side car.
(5) When a passenger is carried on a road on a motor cycle other than in a side car the driver shall ensure that such passenger sits astride the motor cycle and on a proper seat securely fixed to the motor cycle behind the seat of the driver.
(6) The driver of a motor cycle on a road shall not carry as a passenger on the motor cycle a child under the age of 8 years unless the child is carried on a securely fixed seat provided in a side car.
(7) In the case of any goods vehicle, subregulation (2) shall apply with effect from 1 September 1989 to a driver of such vehicle in relation to a passenger permitted to travel in the vehicle, other than in the driving cab thereof. (L.N. 263 of 1984)
(8) The provision of subregulation (3) prohibiting the carriage of passengers in excess of the number specified in the registration document of the vehicle shall apply to the driver of a light goods vehicle, medium goods vehicle or heavy goods vehicle with effect from 1 September 1989, and before this date the driver-
(a) of a light goods vehicle shall not carry in the vehicle more than one passenger in addition to the number specified in the registration document of that vehicle, subject to a maximum of 5 passengers;
(b) of a medium goods vehicle or heavy goods vehicle shall not carry in the vehicle more than 5 passengers,
except where he is permitted to do so under an excess passengers permit referred to in that subregulation. (L.N. 241 of 1985)
54. Vehicles exceeding the permitted gross vehicle weight
(1) Subject to subregulations (2) and (3), no person shall drive or use, or cause or permit to be driven or used, on a road a goods vehicle or special purpose vehicle that is so loaded that its gross vehicle weight exceeds the permitted gross vehicle weight assigned or deemed to have been assigned to the vehicle under the Road Traffic (Registration and Licensing of Vehicles) Regulations (Cap. 374 sub. leg.).