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VEHICLE AND ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE, 1947.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Vehicle and Road Traffic Ordinance, 1947, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Vehicle and Road Citation. Traffic (Amendment) Regulations, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Vehicle and Traffic Regulations, 1912, set forth in Volume II of the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 Edition), hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations.

2. Regulation of the principal regulations is hereby Replace replaced by a new regulation 7 as follows-

ment of regulation 7 of the

"1. (1) The Commissioner of Police may issue a learner principal

regulations. driver's licence at a fee of $5 valid for six months to enable the holder to learn to drive any specified category of motor vehicle.

(2) The holder of such licence may drive only under the following conditions-

(a) that he shall drive a vehicle only of the category specified therein over such roads and at such times as shall be specified therein;

(b) that he shall be accompanied in a motor vehicle by a person holding a licence, other than one issued to a learner driver, to drive that category of vehicle. Such person shall have held such a licence for a period of not less than one year;

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(c) that no person other than one required to accompany a learner driver under the foregoing conditions shall be carried as a passenger;

(d) that where the licence is endorsed that the holder shall use an optical aid the holder shall not drive without the use of such aid;