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Interpre- tation.

(30 of 1951).

2. (1) In this Ordinance-

"car" means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted only for the carriage of not more than nine passengers and their effects;

"certificate of insurance" means a certificate of insurance issued in accordance with the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance, 1950;

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Police and any person authorized in writing by him to discharge any of his functions under this Ordinance;

"driver" means, in relation to any vehicle, any person who is in charge of or assisting in the control of such vehicle and includes any person pulling a rickshaw or bearing a chair and “drive" in relation to a vehicle includes pull and bear;

Ad "driving licence" means a licence issued in accordance with the

provisions of regulations made under section 57

"'functions" includes powers and duties;

"goods vehicle" means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods or equipment or for any other purpose except the carriage of the driver and passengers, or a trailer so constructed or adapted;

"motor vehicle" means any mechanically propelled vehicle:

"'omnibus" means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted only for the carriage of more than nine passengers and their effects:

"owner" includes the person in whose name a vehicle is registered and the person by whom the vehicle is kept and used and, in relation to a vehicle which is the subject of a hiring agree- ment or hire purchase agreement, means the person in posses- sion of the vehicle under that agreement;

"passenger" includes any person carried on an omnibus except one driver, not more than two conductors, such gate boys as are necessary and one ticket inspector and any person carried in a car except one driver;

"public" in relation to any vehicle means standing or plying for hire or available and intended for hire and carrying goods ar passengers for hire or reward;

"registration mark" means the registration mark assigned or deemed to be assigned to a motor vehicle in accordance with the provisions of regulations made under section 4; "road" includes every highway, thoroughfare, street, lane, alley, court, square, archway passage, path, way and place to which the public have access, either continuously or intermittently and either of right or by licence, whether the same be the property of the Crown or otherwise;

"standing or plying for hire" means, in respect of any vehicle, being on any road in motion or stopped and exhibiting any sign or signal or having a driver who is exhibiting any sign or signal indicating that it or any portion of it is available for hire whether on a pre-determined route or otherwise; "Supreme Court" has the meaning assigned to it by the Supreme (Cap. 4).

Court Ordinance;

"taximeter"" means any appliance for measuring the time or distance for which a taxi is used, or for measuring both time and distance, or for recording the fare by time or distance or by a combination of time and distance, which is for the time being approved for the purpose by the Commissioner ;

"use" means use on a road; "vehicle" means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise intended or adapted for use on roads and includes a rickshaw and a chair but does not include a perambulator or any conveyance for use solely on railways or tramways; "vehicle licence" means a licence issued under the provisions of

regulations made under section 4.

(2) For the purpose of this Ordinance, motor vehicles shall be divided into the following classes-

(a) private goods vehicles, that is to say goods vehicles which are not public goods vehicles and are not used for the carriage of goods for hire or reward;