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Display and illumina- tion of registra-

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Provided that no part of the first letter is nearer to the left-hand edge of the plate than half an inch.

9. (1) The registration mark shall be exhibited on the front and on the back of the motor vehicle in a vertical position so thai every letter and figure of the registration mark is vertical and is tion marks. easily distinguishable, in the case of letters and figures placed on the front of the motor vehicle, from in front of the motor vehicle, and in the case of letters and figures placed on the back of the inotor vehicle, from behind the motor vehicle.

Second Schedule.

(2) In the case of an invalid carriage not exceeding five cwi. în weight unladen and a motor cycle the plate fixed on the front of the motor vehicle may be a plate having duplicate faces con- forming with the Second Schedule fixed so that from whichever side the motor vehicle is viewed the letters and figures on one or other face of the plate are casily distinguishable although they are not distinguishable from the front of the motor vehicle.

(3) No other figures or letters and no design, advertisement nr ornamentation shall be placed near to the registration mark in such a manner as to be liable to render it more difficult to read or distinguish the registration mark of the motor vehicle when in motion.

(4) When a vehicle of any kind is attached to a mechanically propelled motor vehicle either in front or behind, the registration mark required to be exhibited on the front or on the back of the mechanically propelled vehicle or a duplicate of such registration mark shall be exhibited on the front or on the back of the vehicle attached as the case may be in the same manner as the registration mark is required to be fixed upon the motor vehicle drawing or propelling the same.

(3) Whenever a motor vehicle is in motion upon a road between sunset and sunrise a lamp shall be kept burning upon the motor vehicle so contrived as to illuminate by means of re- flection, transparency or otherwise and to render easily distin- guishable from any point not more than fifty feet behind the motor vehicle every letter and figure of the registration mark exhibited on the back of the motor vehicle or on the vehicle attached to the back of the motor vehicle as the case may be.

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(6) No person shall drive or use or permit to be driven or used any motor vehicle on which the registration mark assigned to such motor vehicle is not displayed and illuminated in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

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10. (1) The registered owner of a motur velticle shall forth- Altera with inform the Commissioner in writing of any circumstance or event which affects the accuracy of any entry in the form of vehicle. application in respect of that vehicle delivered or sent to the Commissioner under the provisions of regulation 4.

(2) The registered owner of a motor vehicle shall whenever required by the Commissioner so to do-

(a) forthwith furnish to the Commissioner all such informa

tion as he may require for the purpose of verifying the entries relating to that motor vehicle in the register of motor vehicles kept by him; and

(b) forthwith forward or deliver to the Commissioner the

registration book relating to that motor vehicle.

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11. (0) On any transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle Transfer which is registered the person to whom the vehicle has been vehicles. transferred shall within seventy-two hours after such transfer deliver to the Commissioner a notice of transfer in such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner and signed by the registered owner or some person authorized in writing by him and signed by the person to whom the vehicle has been transferred or by some person authorized in writing by him together with the registration book and a fee of two dollars in the case of a motor cycle and five dollars in the case of any other vehicle:

Provided that no day which is a general holiday by virtue of the Holidays Ordinance shall be counted in computing any (Cap. 148). period of seventy-two hours in accordance with this regulation. (*) On receipt of the form referred to in paragraph (1) duly completed, the Commissioner shall either-

(a) make the necessary alterations in the register; or (b) cancel the registration of the motor vehicle, re-register the motor vehicle assigning to it a new registration mark and register the new owner of the motor vehicle,

and, in either case, return the registration book to the new registered owner.