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ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE 1957,
(No. 39 of 1957).
ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND USE) (AMENDMENT)
REGULATIONS 1965.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Road Traffic Ordinance 1957, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Construc- Ciuden. tion and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1965.
2. Regulation 28 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Revocation Regulations 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is and replace. revoked and replaced by the following-
"Overbang,
coent of ragulation 28. (G.N.A.
28. (1) The overhang of a motor vehicle, other than 106/36). a goods vehicle which exceeds two tons in weight unladen or an omnibus, shall not exceed fifty per cent of the distance between the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle which passes through the centre or centres of the front wheel or wheels and the foremost vertical plane from which the overhang is to be measured.
(2) The overhang of a goods vehicle which exceeds two tons in weight unladen or an omnibus shall not exceed sixty per cent of the distance between the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle or omnibus which passes through the centre or centres of the front wheel or wheels and the foremost vertical plane from which the overhang is to be measured.”,
3. Regulation 38 of the principal regulations is amended by-- (a) being renumbered as paragraph (1) thereof;
(b) the deletion from the proviso of "seventy feet" and the sub-
stitution therefor of the following
"seventy-six feet, if the omnibus has a swept circle not exceeding eighty feet in diameter"; and
(c) the insertion of the following new paragraph-
"(2) in this regulation, the expression "swept circle" means the circle traced at ground level by a vertical line passing through any part of the omnibus included in the overall length and overall width of the omnibus.".
Amendment
of regulation 38.