2.
3.
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(Ü) Licensed to carry four or more
passengers
Kowloon Taxis.
() Registered for use only as a
taxi
(ii) Registered for use as a taxi and
as a goods vehicle
New Territories Taxis,
flacluding a dual purpose vehicle registered for use as i taxl and es a goods vehicle}
(1) Licensed to carry not more than
four passengers
(i) Licensed to carry live or more
passengers
$1.50 for the first mile and 20 cents for every 1/5th mile thereafter or 25 cents for every 174th mile thereafter, whichever the taximeter of the taxi is calibrated to register.
$1 for the first mile and 20 cou for every 1/4th of a mile thereafter.
$1.30 for the first mile and 20 cents for every 1/4th of a mile thereafter.
80 cents for the first mile and 20 cents for every 1/4th of a mile there- after
$1 for the first mile and 25 cents for every 1/4th of a mile thereafter.
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Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
By the Road Traffic (Amendment) Ordinance, 1964, two categories of motor vehicles, namely, bíre omnibuses and hire cars, were combined with the cxisting categories of public omnibuses and public cars under the general heading of public amnibuses and public cars, respectively. This results in the need for consequential alterations in the provisions of the Road Traffic (Taxis and Hire Cars) Regulations, 1960. The present regulations, accordingly, revoke and replace the Road Traffic (Taxis and Hire Cars) Regulations, 1960, by substantially similar provisions in which the consequential changes are made and a new regulation, regulation 3. is added to provide that the provisions should continue to apply, as regards public cars, only to those public cars, which hitherto were known as hire cars, when hired as a whole, but, as regards omnibuses, to extend the regulations to public omnibuses when hired as a whole for the carriage of passengers. This extension to public omnibuses hired as a whole is new. Revoked regulations did not apply to such omnibuses.
The
2. The opportunity is taken to make one other alteration of substance. Regulation 12(3) enables the Commissioner to authorize the parking of private rebicles in taxi ranks during those periods when the taxis themselves do not use the ranks.
3. Minor typographical errors and omissions in the revoked regulations have been corrected. and regulation 34 (which corresponds to regulation 33) bas been rewarded to make it clear, as the Road Traffic Ordinanes, 1957, does. that a hire agreement itself does not have to be in writing.
(Secretariat GR33/3231/541)
3.
Waiting Time.
For every period of 23 minutes or part thereof during which the taxi i hired but not in motion For every period of 3 minutes or part thereof during which the taxi is hired but not in motion
whichever the taximeter of the taxi is calibrated to register.
Additional Fares.
20 cents; or
25 cents.
(1) For every article of baggage carried in accordance with the provisions of regulation 29(1)(8) 50 cents,
Gi) For every animal or bird carried
in accordance with the provisions of regulation 32
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(i) Such additional expenditure as is necessitated by crossing the harbour in the course of the hiring
50 cents.
In this Schedule “mile” includes any part of a mik,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
25th August, 1964.
Ja Ans
Deputy Clerk of Councils.