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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1891.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 473.

The following Regulations are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st November, 1891.

W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.

REGULATIONS

Made by the Governor in Council on the 19th day of November, 1891, under the provisions of "The Licensing Consolidation

Ordinance, 1887."

1. The rules and conditions made by the Governor in Council on the 30th day of November, 1887, the 4th day of January, 1888, the 12th day of June, 1888, and on the 3rd day of January, 1891, under the provisions of The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, are hereby repealed.

2. Licences for public vehicles and licences for drivers, drawers or bearers of such vehicles shall be issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police, who may, in his discretion, refuse to issue any licence. No licences shall be issued for more than 500 jinrickshas, within the island of Hongkong. Subject to the next rule all licences for public vehicles shall be taken out half-yearly or for the residue of the current half-year, and shall expire on the 31st day of May or on the 30th day of November, all licences for drivers, drawers or bearers of public vehicles shall be taken out at such times and for such periods not exceeding 1 year as the Superintendent of Police may consider

necessary.

3. Licences for jinrickshas within the island of Hongkong shall be issued annually and shall be chargeable with a fee of $72 per licence. Such fee shall be payable in advance by four equal instal- ments of $18 each per quarter, and in default of any such payment the licence shall be forfeited. 4. The fees for half-yearly Licences for other public vehicles shall be as follows:— (a) For every wheeled vehicle other than a jinricksha in the island of

Hongkong,

(b) For every wheeled vehicle in British Kowloon,

(c) For every chair,

$18.00

$12.00

.$ 1.00

The fee for a licence for a driver, drawer or bearer of a public vehicle shall be thirty cents.

5. No licence shall be transferable, except upon such special grounds as may be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police and sanctioned by the Governor.

6. No holder of a licence for a vehicle shall let out, his vehicle to any driver, drawer or bearer not being the holder of a lawful licence as driver, drawer or bearer.

7. Every licensed vehicle shall have thereto affixed, or painted thereon in such conspicuous places as the Captain Superintendent of Police directs, the number of its licence in figures not less than two inches in length.

8. No jinricksha licensed under these Rules shall exceed 36 inches in breadth between the wheels, Such tires must be flat not bevelled, or shall have tires to such wheels of less breadth than 14 inch. and the hood of such jinricksha must afford a clear height from the upper side of the cushion of 41 inches.

9. The driver, drawer or bearer of every licensed vehicle shall wear conspicuously a distinguish- ing badge bearing the number of his own licence. Should such badge be made of leather or metal, or of both and be issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police he may demand a deposit of twenty-five cents for each badge, such deposit to be returned on the expiry of the licence and the return of the badge.

10. For each jinricksha there shall be two licensed drawers, who need not, however, both be in charge of the vehicle at the same tine.

11. Each licensed driver, drawer or bearer of a vehicle shall be photographed, free of cost to himself; one copy of such photograph shall be attached to his licence, and one shall be retained by the Captain Superintendent of P'olice.

12. The licensee of every vehicle shall cause his vehicle to be taken at such times and to such place as may be directed by the Captain Superintendent of Police for the inspection of such vehicle, and shall not leave such place of inspection until authorised to do so by the Captain Superintendent of Police.