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Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended

ro indicate their general purport).

Regulations 2, 3, 4(6) and 6 amend respectively regulations 12, 13, 14 and the Fourth Schedule of the principal requistions to prevent the use of buoyant apparatus as an alternative floatation to inflatable liferafts in the case of ships of the Classes & and K. and in the case of ships of Class L. which voyage outside sheltered waters.

Regulation 4(a) amends regulation 14(2) of the principal regulations to provide that in the case of ships of the Class L. voyaging only inside sheltered waters floslation shall be provided with the number of lifebuoys specified in Part 1l of the Second Schedule to the principal regulations and in addition thereto wuh cither inflatable liferafts, buoyant apparatus or lifebuoys, or a combination thereof, sufficient to provide floatation for not less than sixty per sent of the persons carried in the ship and as to the remaining forty per cent with either lifejackets or vas or more of the former three methods of floatation.

2. Regulation 5 amends a numerical error in the First Schedule to the principal regulations.

4. It is anticipated that the principal regulations will come into operation ou or about the 1st day of Jaquary, 1963.

(Secretariat GR10/5061/58)

ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE, 1957,

(No. 39 of 1957).

ROAD TRAFFIC (GENERAL) REGulations, 1961,

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 and 5A of the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1957, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic Citation (General) Regulations, 1961.

(2) Regulation 4 shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1962.

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2. For the purpose of section 13 of the Ordinance the maximum Speed speed at which a goods vehicle of a weight unladen exceeding two tons centaio or an omnibus may be driven on a road is thirty miles per hour. vehicles.

3. The driver of a motor vehicle who, on request by or signal Motor from any person having charge of a horse or other animal on a road, vehicles und

acimale. fails to cause such vehicle to stop and to remain stationary for so long as may be reasonably necessary for the safety of the person, the animal or any other person or animal using the road shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

4. (1) Any person who carries out on any vehicle on a road any Repaina to maintenance or repair other than such maintenance or repair as is vehicles, necessary to enable the vehicle to be removed from the road shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of out thousand dollars.

(2) In any proceedings under this regulation the burden of proof that the maintenance or repair was necessary to enable the vehicle to be removed from the road shall be on the person charged.

5. The regulations headed "Vehicles and Traffic Regulation" Revocation appearing on pages 723 to 816 of Volume II of the Regulations of Hong of the Kong (1937 Edition) are revoked.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

3rd October, 1961.

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Clerk of Councils.

Vehicles and Traffic Regulation.