1947-HKRS29-8-14_Part01 — Page 31

HONG KONG.

No. 17 OF 1947.

I assent.

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Governor.

28th March, 1947.

An Ordinance to regulate the use of vehicles and to provide

for the control of road traffic.

(28th March, 1947.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vehicle and burt title. Road Traffic Ordinance, 1947.

2. In this Ordinance

(a) "Public vehicle" includes every vehicle which plies for hire or is from time to time let out for hire or is intended to be let out for hire, but excludes any vehicle the plying for hire of which is prohibited by Regulation müde under this Ordinance; (b) ""Road" includes every highway, thoroughfare, street, lane, alley, court, aquare, archway, pasange, path, way and place to which the public have access, either continuously or intermittently and either of right or by licence, whether the same be the property of the Crown or otherwise;

(c) "Vehicle" includes every means of conveyance or of transit or other mobile apparatus used or capable of being used on laud and in whatever way drawn or propelled or carried, but does not include any perambulator or any conveyance for use solely on railways or tramways.

Interprata. tiup.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Regulations. make regulations for any of the following purposes→→

(1) for licensing and regulating vehicles and their

drivers;

(2) for regulating and restricting traffic, whether velicu-

lar or pedestrian;

(3) for regulating the use of vehicles, their equipment

and apparatus;

(4) for controlling the conduct of persons using vehicles;