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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1935.
Interpretation,-Contd.
(i) "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.
(j) "Passenger" includes any person carried in a motor omnibus except one driver, one conductor and one ticket inspector, and, in the case of any other public motor vehicle, any person except one driver.
(k) "Private vehicle" includes any vehicle which does not fall within the definition of a public vehicle.
(1) "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 share- holder merely, or a mortgagee who has not taken possession, or as an employed driver or conductor.
(m) "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 does not include any bicycle or tricycle not propelled by mechanical power.
(n) "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.
(o) "Safety glass" means glass so constructed or treated that, if fractured, it does not fly into fragments capable of causing severe cuts.
(p) "Taxicab" means any motor vehicle which stands or plies for hire and in which the passengers or any of them are not charged to pay separate and distinct fares, or at the rate of separate and distinct fares, for their respective places or seats therein, but the amount indicated by a taximeter.
(q) "Taximeter" means any appliance for measuring the time or distance for which a taxicab is used, or for measuring both time and distance, or for recording the fare by combina- tion of time and distance, which is for the time being approved for the purpose by or on behalf of the Inspector General of Police.
(r) "Trailer" includes any vehicle designed to be drawn or propelled by another vehicle.
(s) "Tricycle" includes any three wheeled vehicle, not propelled by mechanical power, which does not in weight unladen exceed two hundred-weight.
(t) "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.
(u) "Unladen weight" or "weight unladen" in relation to a motor vehicle means the weight of any such vehicle exclusive of the weight of any load but inclusive of any water, fuel, or accumulators normally used for the purpose of propulsion.
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