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Revocation

of regulation 35A.

2

4. Regulation 85A of the principal regulations.is revoked.

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COUNCIL CHAMBER,

27th July, 1965.

Explanatory Note.

Clerk of Councils.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

Regulation 2 of these regulations amends regulation 28 af the Road Tafe (Construction and Use) Regulations 1956 (the principal regulations) so as to increase the permitted amount of overhang in the case of omnibuses and bervy goods vehicles. The permitted amount of overhang in the case of omnibuses and heavy goods vehicles was increased in the United Kingdom in 1963 and vehicles are now being constructed to the new standard. It is considered that the use on the Colony's roads of vehicles with the increased overhang will not lead to any undus obstruction of the traffic flow or to any increased danger to road USCIS.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 38 of the principal regulations so as le empower the Commissioner of Police to permit the use of an omnibus with a turning circle of seventy-six feet, instead of seventy feet, if the swept citeks for the omnibus does not exceed eighty feet in diameter. This amendment will enable the Commissioner of Police to pérmit larger buses, with a consequently greater carrying capacity, to be used in Hong Kong.

Regulation 85A of the principal regulations was intended to require every rickshaw to have thereon a notice stating the prescribed fee for the use of the rickshaw. In fact, fees for the use of rickshaws were revoked by the Road Thalke (General) Regulation 1961. Consequently, regulation 85A has become redundant and is therefore revokad.

(Secretariat GR44/3231/550)

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND USE)

REGULATIONS 1956.

(G.N.A. 106/56).

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND USE) (GUY ARAB MARK V OMNIBUSES EXEMPTION) ORDER 1965.

WHEREAS, under regulation 38 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Regulations 1956, the use of an omnibus with a turning circle axceeding seventy-six feet may not be authorized:

AND WHEREAS the omnibuses specified in the Schedule have a turd- ing circle exceeding seventy-six feel;

AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council is satisfied that it is in the public interest that provision should be made so as to permit the said omnibuses to be used on routes and at times specified by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police:

AND WHEREAS the Governer in Council considers that it is in the public interest that the said omnibuses should be exempted from the provisions of regulation 38 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Regulations 1956:

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by regulation 6A of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Regulations 1956, the Governor in Council has made the following Order-

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Construction and Citation. Use) (Guy Acab Mark V Omnibuses Exemption) Order 1965.

2. The vehicles having the engine numbers and chassis numbers Exemption specified in the Schedule are exempted from the provisions of regulation

38 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use) Regulations 1956. (G.N.A.

106/56).

SCHEDULE.

[reg. 2.]

EXEMPTED VEHICLES.

frem.

Type of omnibus.

Engine number.

Chassis number.

1.

Guy Arab Mark V omnibus

145474

FD 15947

2.

Guy Arab Mark V omnibus

145511

FD 75953

3.

Guy Arab Mark V omnibus

145312

FD 75946

Guy Amb Mark V canibua

145666

FD 73935

5.

Guy Arab Mark V omnibus

146202

FD 75993