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"An Ordinance (No.40 of 1912) te consolidate and amend the
law with respect to vehicles and traffic."
1. The object of this Orèinance was to consolidate and
simplify the present several Ordinances relating to the can-
trel and Regulation of vehicles and traffic.
2. The plan of the Ordinance is very simple.
It defines the different kinds of vehicles used in the Colony
and seme ●ther expressions in connection with the Ordinance
which require explicit definition: it then rives powers to the
Governer-in-Council to make Remulations providing for details
of centre wich may be required: and lastly prescribes renal-
ties for contravention of any Remulatier er licanse. It also
istreducer an arrangement by which a person who has been in-
jured as the result of the Commissien hy any otherfferson of or offence against the law may, if he s• wishes and if he bas a right,recever compensation by means of an order by a Magis- trate componentisa •f a limited amount from the offending
party: the object of this section being to enable claims of this character to be stammary concluded.
3. Section 1 of the Ordinance is fermal.
Section 2 is the definition clause.
Section 3 gives the power of making Regulations to the Governor-inCeuncil for licensing vehicles and drivers, regula- ting traffic, prescribing fees and fares and generally for carrying the previsions of the Ordinance into effect.
Sections 4 & 5 are penal sections.
Section 6 provides for the compensation which may be ordered by a Magistrate te he paid in respect of any injury which has accrued to any person by reaser of the Commission by any other person of an offence against the Ordinance: this compensation is limited to a sum of fifty dollars: it reed net he claimed under the provisions of the Ordinance but it