475326-1938-Lighting-Control-Ordinance-1936-Temporary-Regulations — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 18, 1938. 93

5.* The following restrictions on the use of lights on vehicles shall be observed:-

(1) Except in accordance with such directions as the Commissioner of Police may give under this regulation, the use of head lamps on all vehicles is prohibited. "Head lamp" means a lamp, in which the diameter of the front glass exceeds 4 inches.

(2) No light shall be shown from any moving vehicle except

(a) to the front, a white or yellow light from not more than two lamps;

(b) to the rear, a red light from not more than one lamp. Two lights to the front and one to the rear are compulsory for motor vehicles.

No rear

stop" light and no direction indicator of any kind showing a light shall be used.

Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the use, in trams and omnibuses only, of interior lights reduced in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4).

(3) No light whatever shall be shown from any stationary vehicle except a tram or an omnibus, and then only while it is stopped for so long as may be necessary to pick up or discharge passengers in the course of its regular service.

(4) The lights of trams and omnibuses must be reduced as the Commissioner of Police may direct.

(5) In the case of all other vehicles-

(a) only electric or oil lamps shall be used;

(b) no lamp of a power exceeding six candle-power shall be used;

(c) the front glasses of all lamps in use must be obscured with at least one thickness of ordinary white or yellow tissue paper or with white or yellow paint, colourwash or material so that the obscuring effect is not less than that of one thick- ness of ordinary white tissue paper. The paper, paint or material must cover the whole of the portion of the front glass through which light can pass and must not be treated in any way so as to increase its transparency.

This regulation shall not apply to any vehicle in use on emergency duty for fire brigade, ambulance or police pur- poses.

All instructions given by any police officer for the purpose of enforcing these regulations must be observed.

7. These regulations shall not apply to the New Territories other than New Kowloon.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

17th February, 1938.

*NOTE -Instructions will be published in the press as to the conditions under which the use of head lamps will be permitted on motor vehicles which have no side lamps.