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Significance

of traffic lights.

Traffic lights and pedestrians.

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(i) amber and red together:

(iii) green:

(iv) amber:

Provided that the lights referred to in sub-paragraph (li) may be omitted from the sequence.

12. The significance of traffic lights shall be as follows-

(a) the red signal shall be taken as prohibiting vehicular traffic to proceed beyond the stop line on the carriage-way provided in conjunction with the signals until the green signal is shown. (b) the amber-with-red signal shall be taken to denote an im- pending change in the indications given by the signal from red to green but shall not be taken to alter the prohibitory significance of the red signal;

(c) the green signal shall be taken to indicate that vehicular traffic may pass the signal and proceed straight on or to the left or to the right with due regard to the safety of other users of the road and subject to the directions of any police officer or other duly authorized person who may be engaged in the regulation of traffic;

(d) the amber signal which follows the green signal shall be taken as prohibiting vehicular traffic to proceed beyond the stop line except in the case of any vehicle which, when the signal first appears, is so close to the said line that it cannot safely be stopped before passing the line:

Provided that where a green arrow is used in conjunction with a light signal vehicles may proceed in the direction indicated by the arrow during such time as the arrow is illuminated notwithstanding that they would otherwise be required by the signal to stop.

13. (1) Traffic lights may be used for the purpose of indicating to pedestrians the period during which they should or should not cross the carriage-way, and red and green lights only may be used for this purpose.

(2) The provisions of paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (f) of regulation 11 shall, but the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (g) shall not. apply to such traffic lights.

(3) The significance of such signals shall be as follows-

(a) the red signal shall be taken as prohibiting the crossing of the

road at that point by pedestrians; and

(6) the green signal shall be taken to indicate that pedestrians may

cross the road at that point.

14. Any person, who, on any road, causes a motor vehicle to make U-uros. a turn on such road in order to proceed on that road or portion of road in the reverse direction to that in which the vehicle was proceeding prior to the turn in such a manner as to be likely to cause obstruction to other users of the road shall be guilty of an offence.

15. (1) Whenever in the opinion of the Authority it is necessary Closure of to close a road or any part thereof to all or any particular kind of roads. traffic, the Authority may close such road or part thereof to such traffic for such period as the Authority may think necessary.

(2) A notice of such closure shall be published as soon as may be in one issue of at least two English and two Chinese newspapers circulating in the Colony.

(3) Any person who wishes to drive a motor vehicle or for a motor vehicle to be driven on a road closed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) may apply to the Authority for a permit and the Authority in its absolute discretion may issue such a permil subject to such conditions as the Authority may think fit.

(4) The Authority may revoke any permit issued in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3).

of roads.

16. The Authority may cause all traffic or any particular kind of Temporary traffic to be stopped or diverted at any time and may without publica- closing tion of the notice specified in regulation 15 close any road or part thereof to all traffic or any particular kind of traffic for any period not exceeding forty-eight hours.

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17. Any person who unless authorized to do so by a permit in Delving on writing issued by the Authority drives a vehicle on any road or part closed thereof which has been closed to vehicles in accordance with the provisions of regulation 15 or regulation 16 shall be guilty of an offence.

18. (1) Any road on which a motor vehicle may not, subject to Silent zonIES. the provisions of section 13 of the Ordinance, be driven at a speed exceeding thirty miles per hour shall be a silent zone provided that the Authority may-

(a) by erecting the prescribed traffic signs diagram Numbers 44

and 41 in the Schedule indicate that such road or any part Schedule. thereof so long as such signs are erected is not a silent zone; or

(b) by creating the prescribed traffic signs diagram Numbers 41 and 44 in the Schedule indicate that a road or any part thereof on which motor vehicles may be driven at a speed exceeding thirty miles per hour is a silent zone so long as such signs are erected.