Tyre of soft or elastło material.
Brake drums and calculation of numberA of wheels.
Part 11 not applicable
to motor
brought
"weight unladen" means the weight of a vehicle inclusive of the body and all parts (the heavier being taken where alternative bodies or parts are used) which are necessary to or ordinarily used with the vehicle when working on a road and of the weight of water fuel and accumulators used for the purpose of the supply of power for the propulsion of the vehicle, all water and fuel containers being full but exclusive of any drivers or attendants and of loose tools and loose equipment.
3. Except where otherwise provided in these regulations, a tyre shall not be deemed to be of soft or clastic material unless the said material is either-
(a) continuous round the circumference of the wheel; or
(b) fitted in sections so that so far as reasonably practicable
no space is left between the ends thereof,
and is of such thickness and design as to minimize, so far as reasonably possible, vibration when the vehicle is in motion, and so constructed as to be free from any defect which might in any way cause damage to the surface of a road,
4.
For the purpose of these regulations-
(a) a brake drum shall be deemed to form part of the wheel
and not of the braking system†
(b) any two wheels of a motor vehicle or trailer shall be regarded as one wheel if the distance between the centres of the areas of contact between such wheels and the road surface is less than eighteen inches.
5. Part II of these regulations (except regulations 9, 10 and 35) shall not apply to any motor vehicle brought temporarily vehicles into the Colony by a person resident in a place outside the Colony Lemporarily or in the Colony intending to make only a temporary stay in the Colony while the said vehicle is being used by such person during his stay, provided that such vehicle complies in every respect with the requirements of paragraphs I, III and VIII of Article 3 of the International Convention relative to Motor Traffic concluded at Paris on the 24th: April, 1926.
into the Colony.
6. Every motor vehicle registered before the date of coming Motor into operation of these regulations shall be exempt from the vehicles
registered requirements of any regulation, by which the requirements as before the regards the construction or weight of any class or description of int vehicles is varied, for a period of four years from that date provided of regula- that it complies with the requirements of the regulations to which tiona it would have been subject immediately prior to that date.
PART II.
CONSTRUCTION,
Section 1-Motor Vehicles-general.
operation
varying reqpire- ments as Lo con- struction.
7, No part of a motor vehicle other than the wheels or Construc- tracks of such vehicle and, in the case of a goods vehicle carrying tion. inflammable goods, the earthing chain of such vehicle, shall touch the road.
8.
The overall [engil of-
AN
(a) a motor vehicle other than an articulated vehicle shall
not exceed thirty feet; and
(b) an articulated vehicle shall not exceed thirty-three feet : Provided that the Commissioner by permit in writing, subject
to such terms and conditions and for such period as appears to him fit, may authorize the use of a vehicle exceeding in overall length the limits prescribed by this regulation.
Overall length.
9. The overall width of a motor vehicle or trailer shall not overall
width. excced eight feet:
Provided that the Commissioner, by permit in writing, subject
to such terms and conditions and for such period as appears to him fit, may authorize the use of a vehicle the overall width of which exceeds eight feet.
10. The overall height of a motor vehicle, other than a double Overall
height. decked omnibus, shall not exceed ten feet six inches:
Provided that the Commissioner by permit in writing subject to such terms and conditions and for such period as appears to him fit, may authorize the use of a vehicle exceeding in overal| height the limit prescribed by this regulation.