THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1935.
Motor vehicles,-Contd.
A vehicle which is certified by such inspecting officer to be unfit shall not be driven upon a road except for purposes of repair or test until it has been re-examined and passed fit by an inspecting officer.
137. Private motor vehicles may be left unattended in the places set out in Schedule A to these regulations, or as the Inspector General of Police may from time to time direct by notice in the Gazette, and may use the stands set out in Part I of Schedule B, but may not use other stands.
138. Whenever a motor vehicle is moved on the road by means other than its own power, a person having an appro- priate driver's licence for such vehicle shall be in the driver's seat and guide and control the vehicle, if and to the extent permitted by the circumstances of the case.
139. The tyres fitted to a motor vehicle shall be in a good and serviceable condition.
Taxicabs. (Special and additional).
140. Every taxicab must be fitted with an approved taximeter to indicate to the hirer either the fare chargeable or the distance travelled. The licensee of such taxicab shall maintain such taximeter in good working order.
141. No taximeter shall be affixed to any taxicab unless the appropriate seal or mark approved by the Inspector General of Police is affixed thereto. If a taximeter not having the said seal or mark intact is affixed to any taxicab, the licence of that vehicle shall be liable to revocation or suspension.
142. No person shall break or in any way tamper with the seal or mark placed on the taximeter, or, with intent to deceive, tamper with the taximeter.
143. The driver of every taxicab fitted with a taximeter shall as soon as he is hired and no sooner, set the taximeter in motion, and upon the termination of the hiring shall forth- with stop the taximeter.
144. The driver of a taxicab shall not be compelled to drive for more than eighteen miles, and if hired by time shall not be compelled to drive for more than one hour, unless he shall at the time of hiring have agreed to the contrary.
145. The fare for the hiring of a taxicab fitted with a taximeter shall be according to the following scale :-
HONG KONG.
(1) For a distance not exceeding one mile ......... $0.40
(2) Exceeding one mile, for each quarter of a mile
0.10
in excess
(3) Waiting time with meter shut off, for each
period of five minutes........
0.10
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