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Dangerous

hours of darkness by approved lamps showing the full width thereof placed at intervals of not more than four feet measured at right angles to the line of traffic and approved lamps showing the full length thereof placed at intervals of not more than twelve feet measured parallel thereto.

4. If any excavation is of such a nature or in such a position excavations. that pedestrians or vehicles are in danger of falling into it or are otherwise endangered, the person responsible shall provide such fencing around the excavation as will be adequate and effective to prevent any person from falling into the excavation, unless such fencing would obstruct the passage of trams along a tramway in which event it shall not be necessary so to fence the excavation but instead of so doing he shall display conspicuously not less than four feet above the ground, close to the excavation, such approved signs as are sufficient to give to any person adequate warning of the danger.

Moving of lights and

gigns.

Warning of excavations.

5. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to prevent the temporary removal of any approved sign or approved lamp hereby required where such removal is necessary to permit the passage of any vehicle through the part of the road which is obstructed, provided that in any such case any sign or lamp which is so removed shall be replaced immediately after the passage of such vehicle and that a person is kept in attendance at the point of entry to and, if necessary, at the point of exit from such part of the road to remove and replace the sign or lamp and to warn persons and the drivers of vehicles approaching the obstruction or excavation.

0. Where an obstruction or excavation is not clearly visible al a distance of sixty yards to the driver of a vehicle approaching from any direction on any part of the road in which the excavation is maintained or of any road entering or intersecting such road, the person responsible shall display on the kerb or on the edge of any road, from which the excavation is not so visible, on the near side of vehicles approaching the excavation, an approved sign giving warning of the existence of such excavation at such distance from the excavation as will enable the distance from which the sign is clearly visible to the driver of such vehicles together with the distance between the sign and the obstruction or excavation to be sixty yards or as near thereto as may be practicable :

Provided that in the case of an entering or intersecting road an approved sign shall be displayed at a distance not less than ten yards from the junction of such road with the road in which the excavation exists.

7. An approved sign shall be in English and in Chinese Approved

Bigns. characters in white upon a red ground and shall be clearly visible and legible by day and during the hours of darkness and for that purpose, during the hours of darkness, shall be either constructed of such material as will cause the letters, characters and symbols thereof adequately and clearly to reflect the lights of on-coming vehicles or adequately lighted.

8.

No person shall use a lamp exhibiting a light other than Red lights. a red light for any purpose mentioned in these regulations other than to render an approved sign or approved traffic signals clearly visible during the hours of darkness;

Provided that nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to prevent the use, in addition to the lamps provided in pursuance of these regulations, of lamps showing a white light so far as may be necessary to enable work to be carried out during the hours of darkness.

9. (1) In any case where, by reason of an obstruction or an Traffle

signals. excavation, the part of the road, other than a road restricted to the passage of vehicles in one direction only, available for the passage of vehicles is less than eighteen feet in width-

(a) for a distance exceeding one hundred feet; or

(b) in such circumstances that the view, of an on-coming vehicle, by the driver of a vehicle approaching the obstruction or excavation on the same side of the road as the obstruction or excavation, is obscured by a bend in the road, by such obstruction or excavation or by any other means,

the person responsible shall provide approved traffic signals at or near each end of the obstruction or excavation and shall cause such traffic signals to be operated for the direction of traffic in