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1. Regulation 3 makes a minor verbal amendment to paragraph (2) of regulation 11 of the principal regulations and also inserts therein new provisions which provide that a driving test form will cease to be cffective-
(a) if the learner driver without reasonable excuse fails to attend at
the time appointed for a driving lest; or
(b) on the expiration of eighteen months from the date on which it
was issued.
3.
The effect of the amendment contained in regulation 4 is to require an applicant for a driving licence for a dual purpose vehicle to have attained the age of twenty-one years and to have held a driving licence for at least three years.
4. Regulation 1(2), however, provides that, until the end of July 1969, a person who has a driver's licence which entitles him to drive an unloaded goods vehicle not exceeding two tons and a private cer shall be deemed also to bold a licence to drive dual purpose vehicles. Thereafter, he would have to obtain a licence to drive dual purpose vehicles as will anyone else from the coming into force of these regulations.
3. At present, a learner driver must be accompanied by a qualified Instructor while driving. The new Second Schedule, which is substituted by regulation 3. provides that, whenever a learner driver is considered sufficiently competent by the Commissioner for Transport, he may be accompanied while driving by a driving instructor or by any person who has held a driving licence for at least three years.
6.
Regulation 6 makes a minor amendment to the Third Schedule.
7. Regulation 7 amends the Fourth Schedule so as to enable the Commissioner for Transport to require a candidate for a driving test for & dual purpose vehicle licence to comply with such additional requirements as the Commissioner may add.
(Secretariat GR 19/3231/56)
ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. (Chapter 220),
ROAD TRAFFIC (FAXIS, PUBLIC OMNIBUSES AND PUBLIC CARS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1968.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Road Traffic Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the follow- ing regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Taxis, Public Omnibuses and Public Cars) (Amendment) Regula- tions 1968.
2. Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (7) and substituting the following—
"(1) The Authority may at any time revoke the vehicle hcence in respect of a motor vehicle--
(a) as a taxi, as a public omnibus or as a public
car if-
(1) the registered owner or, where the regis- tered owner is a partnership, one of the partners or, where the registered owner is a company, a responsible officer of the company, has been convicted of any offence in connexion with the use of a motor vehicle as a taxi, as a public omnibus or as a public car or for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward;
(ii) the registered owner has been convicted of an indictable offence;
(iii) the registered owner has been declared a bankrupt or has committed an act of bankruptcy or, where the registered owner is a company, has gone into liquidation; or
(iv) drivers of vehicles owned by the regis- tered owner have been convicted of offences in connexion with the use of the vehicles as taxis. as public omnibuses or as public cars in such manner as would indicate that the registered owner is not exercising or has not exercised adequate control over such drivers;
(b) as a public omnibus or a public car if it appears to the Authority that the vehicles have been used in contravention of any of the conditions
Citalion.
Amendment of tegulation 7. (Cup. 120, mub. Hea )
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