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ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE, 1957.

(No. 39 of 1957).

ROAD TRAFFICc (Construction and Use) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Road Traffic Ordinance. 1957, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

CONTINENCé-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Con- Citation and struction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations, 1960, and shall come ment. into operation on the 1st day of June, 1960.

Lion 94

1. Regulation 94 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Amendment Regulations, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) of regula is amended by the deletion of paragraph (2) and the substitution (O.N.A. therefor of the following-

"(2) No person shall drive or use or cause, suffer or permit to be driven or used—

(a) a goods vehicle of a weight unladen not exceeding two tous for the carriage of persons in the cab of the vehicle, in excess of the seating capacity of the vehicle or, more than one person in the rear or on the platform of the vehicle; or

(b) a goods vehicle of a weight unfaden exceeding two tons for the carriage of more than six persons, excluding the driver:

Provided that the Commissioner, by permit in writing, subject to such terms and conditions as appear to him necessary, may authorize any number of persons, in excess of six in number, to travel in or on a goods vehicle of a weight unladen exceeding two tons."",

106/56).

3. Regulation 165 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment addition, in paragraph (2), after the figures "88" of the following-

of regulation

165.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

17th May, 1960.

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