186928-1932-Regulations-under-section-3-of-the-Vehicles-and-Traffic-Regulation-Ordinance-1912 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1932.

(i) "Motor vehicle" means a vehicle propelled by

mechanical power.

6) "Nett load" in relation to a commercial motor vehicle means the weight ascertained by deducting the unladen weight of the vehicle from the gross weight of the laden vehicle, including in such gross weight that of all persons being carried thereon. except the driver and one attendant.

(k) "Passenger" includes any person carried in a motor omnibus other than one driver and one con- ductor and any ticket inspector.

() "Private vehicle" includes any vehicle which does

not fall within the definition of a public vehicle. (m) "Proprietor of a motor omnibus" includes the licensee of a motor omnibus and every person who is a partner therein or co-owner thereof, or is concerned therein, with lawful or assumed powers of management, otherwise than as a shareholder merely, or a mortgagee who has not taken posses- sion, or as an employed driver or conductor. (n) "Public vehicle" includes any vehicle which plies for hire or is from time to time let out for hire or is intended to be let out for hire, but it shall not include any bicycle or tricycle not propelled by mechanical power.

(o) "Road" includes any highway, thoroughfare, street, lane, alley, court, square, archway, passage, path, way, and place, to which the public have access, either continuously or intermittently and either of right or by licence, whether the same is the property of the Crown or otherwise.

(p) "Taximeter" means any appliance for measuring the time or distance for which a motor cab is used, or for measuring both time and distance, or for recording the fare by combination of time and distance, which is for the time being approved for the purpose by or on behalf of the Inspector General of Police.

(g) "Trailer" includes any vehicle drawn, or propelled

by another vehicle.

(r) "Truck' means any wheeled vehicle, which is constructed or adapted for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of husbandry, trade or business, and which is pulled or drawn by hand. (s) "Unladen weight" or "weight unladen" in relation to a motor bicycle, motor tricycle, or motor vehicle means the weight of any such vehicle exclusive of the weight of any load or of any water, fuel, or accumulators used for the purpose of propulsion. (t) "Van" means any wheeled vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, or a truck, which is constructed or adapted for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of husbandry, trade or business, and which has a roof or covering belonging and attached thereto, or has a frame affixed thereto for a roof or covering

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