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Provided that any motor vehicle which has been licensed under (Cap, 220), any regulation made under the Vehicle and Road Traffic Ordinance at any time during the period of two years before the coming into operation of these regulations shall be deemed to have been registered, and the registration mark assigned to such motor vehicle and the registration book issued in respect of such vehicle on such licensing shall be deemed to have been assigned and issued in accordance with the provisions of regulation 5.

Applica- tion for registra- tion.

Registra- tion.

4. (1) Any person who wishes to have registered a motor vehicle, of which he is the owner, shall deliver to the Commissioner an application for registration in such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner, and shall pay to the Commissioner a fee, in the case of a motor cycle or invalid carriage, of one dollar and, in the case of any other motor vehicle, of five dollars,

(2) An application for registration shall be duly completed and shall be signed by the owner of the motor vehicle or by some person duly authorized by him in writing.

5. (1) Upon receipt of an application for registration of a motor vehicle the Commissioner, if he is satisfied with the parti- culars contained in such application, subject to the provisions of regulation 15, shall-

(a) register the motor vehicle; and

(b) assign to the motor vehicle a registration mark which, in the case of a public omnibus, a hire omnibus, a taxi and a public car shall consist of the words "Public Vehicle" and a number or those words and one or more letters and a number, and in the case of any other motor vehicle shall consist of a number or ane or more letters and a number; and

(c) register the person by whom or on whose behalf the application for registration was made as owner of the motor vehicle; and

(d) issue to that person a registration book in respect of the motor vehicle, marked with the registration mark assigned to the motor vehicle.

(2) A registered owner shall produce his registration buck for inspection upon the request of a police officer within seventy- two hours of such request.

registra-

В. (1) If a registration book has been lost, destroyed or Duplicate accidentally defaced, the registered owner may apply to the Com- tion book. missioner to issue to him a duplicate registration book and the Commissioner, upon being satisfied as to such loss, destruction or defacement, shall issue to him a duplicate registration book so marked on payment of a fee of live dollars and the duplicate so issued shall have the same effect as the original registration hyok.

(2) If at any time after the issue of a duplicate registration book under this regulation the original registration book shall be found, the registered owner shall forthwith report the finding thereof to the Commissioner and shell take all reasonable steps to obtain possession of the original registration book and to return il to the Commissioner.

7. (1) The Commissioner shall maintain a register of motor Register vehicles containing the several particulars specified in the First of motor Schedule,

vehicles, First Schedule.

(2) The Commissioner shall supply to every person making application to him in writing a certified copy of any entry in the register upon payment to him of a fee of five dollars for each entry.

B. Every motor vehicle which has been registered and to Registra which a registration mark has been assigned, shall exhibit on a flat tion marka. rectangular plate or on a flat unbroken rectangular surface forming part of the motor vehicle such registration mark, conforming as to lettering, numbering and otherwise with the provisions of the Second Schedule:

Provided that in the case of an invalid carriage not exceeding five cwt. in weight waladen and a motor cycle-

(a) the alternative of exhibiting the registration mark on a surface forming part of the motor vehicle shall not apply; (b) the flat plate upon which the registration mark aforesaid is exhibited on the front of the motor vehicle need not be rectangular but the letters and figures must comply with an arrangement shown in the Second Schedule;

(c) the flat plate upon which the registration mark aforesaid is exhibited on the back of the motor vehicle may have the corners rounded off and the letters forming the registration mark, if in the form shown in diagram No. 2 of the Second Schedule, may be placed to the left:

Second. Schedule.