THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1935.
Motor vehicles. (Special and additional).
116. A motor vehicle shall not exceed seven feet six inches in width between its extreme projecting points.
117. Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with two entirely independent braking systems or with one efficient braking system having two independent means of operation. The brakes of a motor vehicle may be tested by any European police officer of the Traffic sub-department not below the rank of sergeant. The licensee and the driver shall give all reasonable facilities for such testing, and the occupants (if any) of the vehicle shall comply with all reasonable require- ments of the police officer. Cars may be stopped on the road for such testing of brakes, but, ordinarily, cars will not be stopped for brake tests while making a journey.
118. Every motor vehicle with left hand drive shall be provided with a mechanical device, to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police, and in good working order, for indicating the direction to be taken by such vehicle.
119. Licence discs will be issued annually or periodically by the Inspector General of Police. Every motor vehicle shall carry its appropriate licence disc, which shall be placed and carried on the vehicle so as to be clearly visible at all hours of daylight to a person either at the near side or at the front of the vehicle. Provided that, in the case of a motor vehicle fitted with a front glass windscreen, the licence disc shall be carried facing forwards on the near side behind the lower corner of the glass of such windscreen and within two inches of such glass so as to be clearly visible from in front at all times in daylight.
120. An applicant for a licence for a motor vehicle shall, if called upon by the Inspector General of Police to do so, make a true declaration of the unladen weight of the vehicle and the engine number, and he shall produce the maker's description or other satisfactory evidence in support of his declaration.
121. A motor vehicle shall carry in front and rear plates, known as "number plates", bearing the number of its licence. The plates shall be painted white, and the figures thereon shall be painted black. The figures shall be three inches high and every part of every figure shall be half an inch broad. The total width of the space taken by every figure, except in the case of figure 1, shall be not less than 1 inches. There shall be a space of an inch between adjoining figures.
Provided that in the case of motor bicycles, the figures shall be 21 inches high, and the total width of the space taken by each figure except in the case of figure 1, shall be 1 inches. Every part of every figure shall be 7/16 of an inch broad. There shall be a space of half an inch between adjoining figures. The front plate of a motor bicycle or motor tricycle shall bear on both sides the number of its licence.
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