Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport),
These regulations make a number of minor amendments to the Vehicle and Road Traffic (Registration and Licensing of Vehicles) Regulations, 1956-
Regulation 2 shortens the title to the principal regulations.
Regulation 3 deleres the superfluous definition of "Commissioner" and inserts
a definition of "weight" unladen".
Regulations 4, 5 and 10 are consequential, upon the insertion in the Road
Traffic Ordinance, 1957 of the new clasifications of vehicl—–—
"dual-purpose vehicle" and "public car".
Regulation 6 provides that no fee shall be charged for the endorsement on
a vehicle licence of a change of address. Regulations 7 and 8 provide for the issue of a vehicle licence, at the discretion of the applicant, for a period of three years in addition to the present period of twelve months, and that every vehicle licence shall run from the first day of the mooth in which application for the licence was made, not from, as at present, a fixed date, to obviate the necessity of renewing all vehicle licences for a particulat class of vehicle on the same day in each year. To enable the Commissioner to “stagger" the dates of renewal of vehicle licences, he is empowered, in the case of any application for licensing of a motor vehicle for twelve months received by him in the year 1980, to license the vehicle for six months or nine months and to return the excess fee or to require the applicant to take out a liccace for fifteen mouths,
Regulation 9 provides for the use of a special type of public omnibus designed to carry more than the normal quota of standing passengers, Regulation 11 establishes further offences in relation to private cars used for
illegal hiring.
Regulation 12 corrects a minor error in the principal regulations. Regulations 13, 14 and 15 make consequential amendments to the Schedules to the principal regulations including minor amendments to the Schedule of licence fees and amcodments providing for the licensing of various Lypes of dual-purpose vehicles.
(Secretariat GR33/3231/54)
PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT ORDINANCE,
(Chapter 172).
PLACES OF Public EntertainMENT (AMENDment) RegulaTIONS, 1959,
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Places of Public Citstion and Entertainment (Amendment) Regulations, 1959, and shall come into commence operation on the 1st day of January, 1960.
ment.
2. Regulation 54 of the Places of Public Entertainment Rescission
and replace- Regulations is rescinded and replaced by the following –
ment of
**Sanitary Ötmenia.
(G.N.A. 76/591.
54. (1) Every place of public entertainment shall be regolation 54. provided with watercloset fitments, urinals and lavatory (Vol. X.
D. 289). basins in accordance with the provisions of the Building (Standards of Sanitary Fitments, Plumbing, Drainage Works and Latrines) Regulations, 1959, notwithstanding that the place of public entertainment may be situated in a part of the Colony to which those regulations do not apply.
(2) Waterclosets shall not, save where unavoidable, be approached directly from the auditorium or from any space in which the public await admission.
(3) If lengtby cinematograph displays are to be given in any place of public entertainment, one of the watercloset fitmeots or urinals required, by the Building (Standards of Sanitary Fitments, Plumbing, Drainage Works and Latrines) Regulations, 1959, to be provided for the persons employed or likely to be employed therein shall be provided con- tiguous to the operating enclosure.”.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
27th November, 1959.
Explanatory Note.
Lim
Clerk of Councils.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
The Building (Standards of Sanitary Fitments, Plumbing, Drainage Works and Latrines) Regulations, 1959, provided for higher standards for places of public entertainment than is provided by the present regulation $4 of the Places of Public Entertainment Regulations. These amending regulations apply the new code.
(Secretariat BL1/741/52)