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05mp, 220, pab. let.)

Exemption from

restrictions.

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regulation 13 of the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regula- tions, unless the parking meter is exhibiting a sign indicating that payment has been made for the use of the parking place:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a moter vehicle while it is being driven into the parking place and for such period thereafter as shall be necessary to enable the person in charge of the motor vehicle to comply with subsection (1) of section 10.

(2) In any proceedings for recovery of the fixed penalty for a contravention of subsection (1) it shall be a good defence to prove that an appropriate coin was inserted in the relevant parking meter and, if that parking meter had been working satisfactorily the indication referred to in subsection (1) would have been displayed but that owing to a defect in the parking meter, no such indication was displayed.

12. (1) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 7 or subsections (1) and (2) of section 9 shall apply-

(a) so as to restrict the use of any motor vehicle in con- nexion with any building operation, demolition, or excavation, the removal of any obstruction to traffic, the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of any road or the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or near to any road of any sewer or main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or of any tramway, telegraph, telepbone, television or wired-vision wires, cables, posts or supports if the vehicle cannot be conveniently put to such use outside the period of restriction:

(b) to any fire services motor vehicle, ambulance, police motor vehicle, motor vehicle used for the conveyance of public mail, or motor vehicle used for defence purposes, including civil defence purposes, when such motor vehicle is being used as a matter of urgent necessity in any road so restricted;

(c) to any public omnibus, being an omnibus which is being used or is intended to be used to carry passengers at separate and distinct fares within the Colony on a recognized and predetermined route or for a recognized and predetermined purpose in accordance with a right or licence granted by or under any enactment-

() while waiting at an authorized stopping place or at a turning or terminal point for such time as is necessary to enable any person to board or alight or to load or unload his personal effects; or

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(ii) when parked temporarily at any place at or near a turning or terminal point provided for that purpose under subsection (2) of section 26 of the Public Trans- port Services (Hong Kong Island) Ordinance or sub- section (2) of section 24 of the Public Transport Services (Kowloon and New Territories) Ordinance; (d) to any motor vehicle parked in a parking place:

(e) to any taxi waiting in a part of a road set aside for

taxis;

() to anything done with the permission of a police officer

in uniform; or

(g) so as to prevent any person from causing or permitting

a motor vehicle to wait for the purpose of-

(i) enabling any person to board or alight or to load or unload his personal effects; or

(ii) delivering or collecting goods or merchandise or loading or unloading the motor vehicle at premises situate within the road if it is not reasonably practicable to load or unload the motor vehicle in any neighbouring road, not being a restricted road:

Provided that no motor vehicle shall wait for any longer period than may be necessary for such purpose.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 10 or subsection (1)} of section 11 shall apply-

(a) to any fire services motor vehicle, ambulance, police motor vehicle, motor vehicle used for the conveyance of public mail, or motor vehicle used for defence purposes, including civil defence purposes, when such motor vehicle is being used as a matter of urgent necessity; (b) so as to prevent any person from causing or permitting

a motor vehicle to wait for the purpose of-

(i) enabling any person to board or alight or to load or unload his personal effects; or

(ii) delivering or collecting goods or merchandise or loading or unloading the motor vehicle at premises situate within the road if it is not reasonably practicable to load or unload the motor vehicle in any neighbouring road:

Provided that no motor vehicle shall wait for any longer period than may be necessary for such purpose.

13. There shall be a fixed penalty for a contravention of any of the provisions of section 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 or of subsec-

(CAp. 317.)

(Cmp. 116)

Fixed penalty.