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VEHICLE AND ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 220).

Vehicle and Road Traffic (MOTOR VEHICLEs) (Direction INDICATOR) REGULATIONS, 1954.

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

1. These regulations may be cited as the Vehicle and Road Citalian. Traffic (Motor Vehicles) (Direction Indicator) Regulations, 1954-

2.

These regulations shall apply to all motor vehicles and Application shall come into force on such day as the Governor in Council shall and com notify in the Gazette.

3. In these regulations→→→

"direction indicator" means a device fitted to a motor vehicle for the purpose of intimating the intention of the driver to change the direction of the vehicle to the right or to the left; "motor omnibus" means any motor vehicle whch is used to carry

passengers at separate fares.

mencement.

Interpre- tation.

4. Every motor vehicle which is fitted with a direction Direction indicator shall as respects that indicator comply with the provi- indicatora. sions of the Schedule to these regulations-

(a) if it is a vehicle fitted with electric lighting equipment, with either the provisions of Part 1 of the said Schedule, or the provisions of Part 11 of the said Schedule; or

(b) if it is not a vehicle so fitted, with the provisions of

Part II of the said Schedule.

Schedule.

5. Any person who uses on a road a motor vehicle without Direction a direction indicator in accordance with these regulations shall indicators

compulsory be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine of five hundred on all dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

motor

vehicles.

6. The Vehicle and Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles) (Direction Rescission. Indicator) Regulations, 1949, are hereby rescinded.

(G.N.A.

248/49).