safety of passengers and for their safe entrance to and exit from and accommodation in such car and their protection from the machinery used for drawing or propelling such car.
To inspect cars, etc.
34. The Director of Public Works, or any officer or officers appointed for that purpose by the Governor in Council in writing, may, from time to time, 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 in Council may (after receiving from the Company and considering their 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.
35. The Company or any person using electric power on the tramway contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, or to any of the rules set forth in Schedule 1 hereto, or to any rule added thereto or substituted therefor as aforesaid, shall for every such offence be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and also in the case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding ten dollars for every day after the first during which such offence continues.
Rules.
36. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may from time to time make rules with regard to the tramway for regulating the working of the tramway as well as for any of the following purposes, that is to say:-
For regulating the use of the warning apparatus affixed to the cars.
For 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.
For regulating the entrance to and exit from and accommodation in the cars and the protection of passengers from the machinery of any car used on the tramway.
For regulating the rate of speed of the cars: Provided that the speed as regards Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 shall not (unless another rate be authorized by the Governor in Council under the authority of this clause) exceed the rate of ten miles an hour, and, as regards Sections Nos. 6 and 7, shall not exceed the rate of fifteen miles an hour, and that no cars may pass through moveable facing points at a pace exceeding the rate of four miles an hour: Provided also that, as regards Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the Governor in Council may, if he shall think fit so to do, authorize the maximum rate of speed to be increased to a rate not exceeding the rate of twelve miles an hour.
For the stopping of cars using the tramway.
For providing for the due publicity of all rules for the time being relating to the tramway by exhibition thereof in conspicuous places.
For providing for the safety of the Public in all cases in which it shall appear to the Governor in Council that such safety is, or is likely to be, endangered or imperilled.
Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and to their furnishing to the Governor in Council a true copy of every rule which they propose to make one month at least before the same is made, the Company may from time to time make rules--
For preventing the commission of any nuisance in or upon any car or in or against any premises belonging to them.
For regulating the travelling upon any car belonging to them.
Notice of the making of any rules by the Governor in Council or by the Company shall be published once in two consecutive weeks in the Gazette within three weeks after the making thereof.
in rules.
37. Any such rule may impose penalties for offences against the same not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, with or without penalties for continuing offences not exceeding for any continuing offence five dollars.
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