Applica- Lion for licensing.
Third Schedule.
Fourth Schedule.
Licensing.
Third Schedule.
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PART IL
Motor Vehicle Licences—General.
17. (1) Any registered owner who wishes to have licensed a motor vehicle of which he is registered as owner shall deliver to the Commissioner an application for licensing in such formn as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner and the registration book in respect of such vehicle and shall pay to the Commissioner such fee as is set forth in the third column of the Third Schedule or the appropriate proportion of such fee calculated in accordance with the table set forth in the First Part of the Fourth Schedule from the first day of the calendar month in which the application for registration was delivered to the Commissioner to the date stipulated in the fourth column of the Third Schedule or such other date for the ending of the licence as shall be approved of by the Commissioner in accordance with regulation 18:
Provided that such proportionate fee shall not in any case be less than one-quarter of the fee set forth in the third column of the Third Schedule.
(2) An application for licensing shall be duly completed and shall be signed by the registered owner or by some person authorized by him in writing and shall contain such particulars as may be required by the Commissioner.
(3) Before a motor vehicle is licensed, the Commissioner may require the registered owner thereof to produce the motor vehicle for inspection or weighing at any place within the Colony.
18. (1) Upon receipt of an application for licensing of a motor vehicle the Commissioner, if he is satisfied with the particu- lars contained in such application, subject to the provisions of regulation 24 shall license such motor vehicle for the period stipulated in such application which shall be for a period of not more than twelve months ending on the appropriate date set forth in the fourth column of the Third Schedule:
Provided that the Commissioner in his absolute discretion may issue a vehicle licence for any shorter period not ending on any such date in any particular case if he considers such action necessary.
(2) On the licensing of a motor vehicle the Commissioner shall return to the registered owner his registration book marked with the payment of the licence fee and a vehicle licence in such form as he may prescribe.
19. (1) In determining the number of persons for which any Seating
capacity. motor vehicle has seating capacity-
() where separate seats for each person are provided, one person shall be counted for each separate seat provided; (b) where the motor vehicle is fitted with continuous seats, one person shall be counted for each completed length of fifteen inches measured in a straight line lengthwise on the rear of such seal, and where any such continuous seat is fitted with arms for the purpose of separating the seating places and such arms are so constructed that they can be folded back or otherwise put out of use, such seat shall be measured for the purpose of these regulations as if it had not been fitted with such arms;
Provided that in calculating the seating capacity of any motor vehicle the driver's scat shall be excluded.
(2) The Commissioner may license any omnibus to carry a number of passengers in excess of the seating capacity of such omnibus:
Provided that-
(a) no omnibus shall be licensed to carry on the lower or only deck a number of passengers more than one third of the seating capacity of the lower deck in excess of such seating capacity; and
(b) no omnibus shall be licensed to carry passengers on the upper deck in excess of the seating capacity of such upper deck.
20. (1) For the purposes of these regulations, the cylinder Cylinder capacity of any motor vehicle deriving its motive power wholly capacity. from an internal combustion engine worked by a cylinder or cylinders shall be taken to be-
(a) in the case of a single-cylinder engine, the cylinder capacity attributable to the cylinder of the engine;