Vehicles
Provided that the Commissioner shall not be liable for any damage or injury resulting to a school crossing patrol or to any other person or to anything arising from the actions of a school crossing patrol when acting as such.
(2) The Commissioner at any time may revoke a permit issued by him in accordance with the provisions of this regulation and on such revocation the person to whom the permit was issued shall return the permir to the Commissioner.
(3) No fee shall be payable to the Commissioner for a permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.
10. (1) When a vehicle is approaching a place in a road etc. to stop where children on their way to or from school are crossing or seeking to cross the road, a school crossing patrol may, by exhibiting a prescribed sign, require the person driving the vehicle to stop it:
Prohibi-
Provided that a sebool crossing patrol shall not exercise such power within one hundred feet of a crossing.
(2) When a person has been required under paragraph (1) to stop a vehicle-
(a) he shall cause the vehicle to stop before reaching the place where the children are crossing or seeking to cross and so as not to stop or impede their crossing; and
(b) he shall not cause his vehicle to move so as to reach the place in question so long as the sign continues to be exhibited.
(3) In a prosecution for a contravention of the provisions of paragraph (2), where it is proved that a sign was exhibited by a school crossing patrol it shall be presumed to have been a prescribed sign, unless the contrary is proved.
11. No person shall display a prescribed sign on any road tion of up- unless he is authorized to act as a school crossing patrol in accord-
ance with the provisions of regulation 9.
authorized
use of
approved
aixo.
tion of
12. When a school crossing patrol is exhibiting a prescribed lumina. sign between sunset and sunrise, he shall cause such sign to be prescribed illuminated in such a manner as to make it readily visible from sign. either direction for a distance of twenty yards unless it is made of such material as will adequately reflect the lights of approaching vehicles in such a manner as to make it so visible.
and
13. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of Offences regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 or 12 or paragraph (2) of regulation 10 penalties. shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
of parts of
14. Paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 174A of the regula- Rescission tions headed "Vehicles and Traffic Regulation" appearing on pages 723 to 816 of Volume II of the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 Edition) are rescinded.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
[reg. 2.]
1. (1) Every cronaing and its limits shall be indicated by alterate black and white stripes not less than twenty inches nor more than twenty- four inches in width and parallel to the side of the road in accordance with diagram 1 or 2 hereof:
Provided that these provisions shall be regarded as having been complied with in the case of any crossing which for the most part complies with those provisions notwithstanding that there may be some variation in the exact width of such stripes so long as the general indication of the stripes is not thereby materially impaired.
(2) The limits of a crossing may be indicated by studs placed along each edge, not less than ten inches nor more than twenty-eight incher apart extending to within fifty inchos of the edge of the carriageway,
(3) A etossing shall be not leas than eight feet in width.
2. A crossing or its limits shall not be deemed to have censed to ba indicated in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule by reason only of the imperfection or partial displacement or discolouration of any stripe indicating the crossing so long as the general indication of the crossing is not thereby materially impaired.
regulation 174A of the
regulations headed "Vehicles and Traffic Regula-
tion",