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Title.
Preamble.
[See Ord. No. 8 of 1858, s. 17.]
No vehicle to ply for hire until licence obtained. Penalty for breach.
Licences to be taken out and to be renewed half-yearly, and sumns
ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1863.
Regulation of Public Vehicles.
No. 6 of 1863.
An Ordinance to provide for the Regulation of Public Vehicles and Chairs and their Drivers and Bearers, and to license the Hire of Horses.
[8th July, 1863.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the regulation of public vehicles and chairs and for the licensing of the same, as also for the licensing of persons letting horses to hire: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. No vehicle or chair shall ply for or be let on hire unless and until the owner or one of the owners thereof shall have obtained a licence for the same, which licence the Registrar General is hereby required to grant subject to such rules and regulations as are hereby ordained and authorized. Every person being owner or part-owner of a vehicle or chair which shall ply for or be let on hire without such licence, and every driver or bearer of such vehicle or chair plying for, or let on hire without having such licence as is hereby required, shall be subject respectively for each offence to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Added to by Ordinance No. 6 of 1882.]
2. Every such licence ["such licences" as amended by Ord. No. 6 of 1882] shall be taken out half-yearly or for the residue of the current half-year, and shall expire on the thirty-first day of March and on the thirtieth day of September respectively in each year. Upon the taking out of every such licence there shall be paid to the Registrar General for the use of the Public Treasury the following fee:
ces ordinary and special.
Hours within which vehicles may ply for hire, and number of special licences.
No holder of licence to ply out of hours unauthorized by his licence.
(1.) For an ordinary licence for every wheeled vehicle one dollar.
(2.) For a special licence for every wheeled vehicle two dollars.
(3.) For an ordinary licence for every chair fifty cents.
(4.) For a special licence for every chair one dollar.
(5.) For every driver of a vehicle or bearer of a chair ten cents.
3. Every driver of a vehicle and every bearer of a chair, which shall be licensed by an ordinary licence, shall be privileged to ply for hire from five o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock at night. Every driver of a vehicle and every bearer of a chair, which shall be specially licensed, shall be privileged to ply for hire from five o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at night. The number of special licences shall be in the discretion of the Registrar General, in the absence of and subject to any direction he may receive from His Excellency the Governor.
4. No holder of a licence shall ply for hire at any other hour than the hours above authorized, but every holder of a licence may drive or carry a fare within unauthorized hours, provided he has been bona fide engaged within the hours within which he is