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Area Imitations

for taxis.

First Schedule,

Conditions

of issue of a vehicle

licence,

4

6. (1) On the issue of a vehicle licence in respect of a motor vehicle as a taxi or in respect of a motor vehicle which at the date of coming into operation of these regulations is licensed as a taxi as soon as is practicable after such date, the Authority shall designate the vehicle as-

(a) a Hong Kong taxi:

(b) a Kowloon taxi; or

(c) a New Territories taxi

and shall endorse the vehicle licence, in English and in Chinese charac tera with such designation and may at any time thereafter alter oc amend such designation,

(2) Ne person as registered owner or as driver shall cause or permil a taxi to stand or to ply for hire or to be available for hire in any area or place other than in an area or place shown in the third column of the First Schedule opposite the designation of that taxi shown in the second column of that Schedule or in contravention of the provi- sions of that Schedule.

(3) No person as registered owner or as driver shall use or caus or permit to be used a taxi for the carriage of a passenger from any place where that taxi is not permitted to stand or ply for hire to any other place whether in that arca or in another area.

(4) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent a taxi from being used for the carriage of a passenger to a destination in an area where that taxi is not permitted to stand or ply for hire or to be available for bire if the taxi was hired in an area or at a place where it is so permitted.

7. On the issue of a vehicle licence in respect of a motor vehicle as a taxi or as a hire car or at any time during which the vehicle licence is valid, the Authority may impose such conditions as he shall consider necessary as to-

(a) in the case of a taxi, the place at which or from which the

taxi shall stand or ply for hire:

(b) in the case of a hire car, the place where the vehicle shall be

available for hire:

(c) the colour of the vehicle;

(d) in the case of a taxi the badge or other means of identification which shall be supplied by the person to whom the vehicle licence is issued to the driver of the taxi and the display thereof by the driver; and

(e) in the case of a taxi, the exhibition of a plate or an inscrip- tion showing the designation of the taxi in accordance with the provisions of regulation 6 and whether the vehicle licence in respect of the vehicle is endorsed in accordance with the

provisions of regulation 8, in such manner as the Authority shall consider necessary.

8. (1) On the issue of a vehicle licence in respect of a motor Reserved vehicle as a taxi or at any time thereafter the Authority on the applica- taxi stands. tion of the owner of the motor vehicle and on payment of an additional licence fee of one hundred dollars for each your of the licence or a proportionate part of such fee calculated in accordance with the provisions of the first part of the Fourth Schedule to the Road Traffic (Registration and Licensing of Vehicles) Regulations, 1956, may (G.NA. ndorse the vehicle licence with the words "PERMITTED TO USĖ 99/56). RESERVED TAXI STANDS" in English and the characters ***RANÉZHERE?**" and at any time thereafter may cancel any such designation without refund of such fee or any part thereof. (2) Any taxi the vehicle licence in respect of which is endorsed in accordance with the provisions of peragraph (1) may stand or ply for hire or be available for hire in a reserved taxi stand.

(3) No person as registered owner or us driver shall cause or permit a taxi to stand or ply for hire or to be available for hire in a reserved taxi stand unless the vehicle licence in respect of the taxi is endorsed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1).

9. The powers and duties conferred on the Authority by regula- Transter. tions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall apply on the transfer of the ownership of a motor vehicle registered as a taxi or as a hire car as if the person to whom the ownership of the motor vehicle has been transferred was applying for the issue to him of a vehicle licence in respect of the vehicle.

10. No fee shall be charged for the endorsement of a vehicle Saving of licence in accordance with the provisions of regulation 6 or for the fees. amendment or cancellation of any endorsement made in accordance with the provisions of that regulation or of regulation 8.

PART III

Taxi Stands.

11. (1) The Authority may set aside any part of a road as a Setting place where taxis may stand or ply for hire.

aalde taxi stands.

(2) Every place so set aside shall be delineated by a line 4 inches wide, composed of sections alternately yellow and white, each 3 feet long, enclosing the place on all sides to which access could Jawfully be obtained by a motor vehicle and by affixing at the end of the place nearest to the on-coming traffic and facing the on-coming traffic a sign in the form shown in diagram 1 of the Second Schedule and, where the Second place is more than 30 feet in length, a similar sign at the opposite end. Schedule, facing in the opposite direction.

diugram 1.