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Amendment
of
regulation 132,
Rescission
and replace.
ment of regulation
133.
3.
Regulation 132 of the principal regulations is amended-
(2) by the insertion in the second line after the word "with"
of the following-
"an adequate";
(b) by the deletion of the words "to the satisfaction of the
Commissioner of Police''.
4.
Regulation 133 of the principal regulations is rescinded and replaced by the following regulation-
**†33. (1) Every vehicle shall be so designed, constructed and equipped, as to have adequate steering gear, and all road wheels, the method and construction of road wheel suspension, the main members of the chassis and the body, and the devices used for connecting the body to the chassis, shall be so made, maintained and adjusted as not to cause, or be likely to cause, any danger, to any person in the said vehicle, or to any person using a road.
(2) Any police officer in uniform of the rank of sub- inspector or above may test and inspect on a road, or subject to the consent of the owner of the premises, on any premises where the vehicle is, any brakes, steering gear, road wheels, road wheel suspension, chassis or body, being part of, or fitted to, a vehicle, and the silencer and exhaust fitted to a motor vehicle.
(3) No such test and inspection on premises where the vehicle is shall be carried out unless, either the owner of the vehicle consents, or notice of the date and time at which it is proposed to carry out the test and inspection has been given to him personally, or left at his address not less than 48 hours before the time of the proposed test and inspection, or shall be sent to him, by registered post, at his address not less than 72 hours before that time.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, the owner of a vehicle shall be deemed to be the person registered as licensee of that vehicle under regulation 8.
(5) The provisions of sub-regulation (3) shall not apply in the case of a test and inspection made within 48 hours of an accident to which regulation 44 applies and in which the vehicle has been involved.
(6) Sub-regulation (1) shall not be deemed to authorize any police officer who is not the holder of a valid driving licence for a vehicle of the appropriate class, to drive any vehicle in the course of such test or inspeection.'
5.
Regulation 137 of the principal regulations is amended Amendment by the deletion of all the words after the word "chassis" and the
regulation substitution therefor of the following-
of
137.
"and the same shall be maintained in good order and condition".
6. Regulation 143 of the principal regulations is rescinded Rescission and replaced by the following-
and
replace- ment of
143.
**143. (1) Any motor vehicle may be inspected by any regulation police officer authorized for that purpose in writing by the Commissioner of Police-
(a) before the issue of a licence in respect of that vehicle,
in any year;
(b) on any change in the ownership thereof;
(e) as often as the Commissioner of Police may require,
not being more than once in any month.
7.
Regulation 166 of the principal regulations is rescinded. Rescission
of regulation 106.
Regulation 179 of the principal regulations is rescinded Rescission and replaced by the following regulation-
and replace- ment of
179.
"179, (c) Whenever in the opinion of the Commissioner regulation of Police it is necessary temporarily to close a road, or any section of a road, to all or any kind of traffic, he may cause such road, or section of a road, to be closed to such traffic for such period as he may think fic.
(z) Notice of such closure shall be inserted as soon as may be in one issue of at least two English and two Chinese newspapers published in the Colony,
(3) A closure which continues in operation for any period not exceeding the expiry of one year from the first day of November. 1953, shall he deemed temporary for the purpose of this regulation."