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VEHICLE AND ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 220).

Vehicle and Road Traffic (AMENDMENT) (No, a}

REGULATIONS, 1953-

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Vehicle and Road Traffic Ordinance, and of every other power him enabling, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations→→

1,

Those regulations may be cited as the Vehicle and Road Citation. Traffic (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1953.

And

3. Regulation 27 of the Vehicle and Traffic Regulations, Rescission 1912, set forth in Volume II of the Regulations of Hong Kong replaca- (1937 Edition), hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations, ment of is rescinded and replaced by the following regulation--

regulation

"27. (1) Where, on or before the first day of November, 1933, there is erected or fixed, in or near any road, by, or with the authority of the Commissioner of Police, a per- manent sign or other device, relating to that road or a portion of it, and purporting to show that, at that place--

(a) vehicles, or any specified class or description of

vehicles, are prohibited or restricted, either generally, or during particular hours; or

(b) the driving of vehicles is prohibited otherwise than

in a specified direction; or

(c) the driving of vehicles is prohibited in excess of a

specified speed,

then, whether that place is a highway or not, and irrespective of any rights vested in any owner or occupier of neighbouring property touching the access thereto or egress therefrom, any person who, unless authorized so to do by a permit in writing issued by the Commissioner of Police, drives any vehicle in contravention of instructions displayed or indicated on such sign or device, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Sub-regulation (1) shall continue in force until the 1st day of November, 1954.'