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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH MARCH, 1883.
Interpre-
tation.
No vehicle to ply for hire until license obtained from Police.
Licenses for passengers and baggage only.
Governor in Council may make Rules for the granting, &c. of Licences.
Penalties.
Repea1.
Vehicle to observe the rule of the road.
Refusing to pay fare, &c.
Compensation
in addition to other penalty.
Suspending clause.
[L.S.]
W. H. MARSH,
The Officer Administering the Government. No. 5 OF 1883.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled, The Vehicles and Public Traffic Ordinance, 1883.
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[24th March, 1883.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as fol-
lows:-
1. In this Ordinance the term Vehicle includes Chairs, Carriages, Trucks, Jinrickshae, and
2. No Vehicle shall ply or be let for hire for the carriage of passengers, unless the owner thereof has obtained a License for the same, and no person shall act as bearer, drawer or driver of such Vehicle until he has obtained a License to do so. Licences shall be granted by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
3. Licenses granted under this Ordinance shall be for the carriage of passengers; and no licensed owner, bearer, drawer, or driver, shall use his Vehicle, for the carriage of animals, merchandise, or goods other than personal baggage. 4. The Governor in Council may make and, when made, revoke, add to, or alter Rules regulating the granting and revocation of licenses under this Ordinance, and the fees to be paid in respect of the same.
5. Any breach of this Ordinance or of any Rules made under it shall be an offence punishable in a summary man- ner, and the offender shall be liable, on conviction before & Police Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dol- lars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, not exceeding three months.
Subject to this Ordinance and to Rules made under it, the Captain Superintendent of Police may in his discretion re- voke any license granted by him.
6. Ordinances 6 of 1863 and 6 of 1882 are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any thing duly done before the passing of this Ordinance.
7. Every Vehicle, whether licensed or not, when meeting any other Vehicle, shall pass it by keeping to its own left side of the road, and when overtaking any other Vehicle going in the same direction shall pass it by keeping to its own right of such Vehicle.
8. No person who has hired any licensed Vehicle, shall refuse to pay the fare for the same forthwith on the termi- nation of the hiring; nor shall any person wilfully injure any licensed Vehicle, or ill-treat or abuse the driver, bearer, or drawer of any such Vehicle.
Any person offending against this section shall, in addition to the punishment to which he may be liable under this Ordinance, be liable to pay such compensation to the owner, bearer, drawer, or driver, whom he ill-treats or abuses," or whose Vehicle he wilfully injures, as the Police Magis- trate may award; and payment of the same shall be en- forced in the same way as payment of a fine under this Ordinance.
9. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 24th day of March, 1883.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the Twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 110.
GOVERNOR'S ARRIVAL.
It is hereby notified for the information of all who may be desirous of being present at the landing of Sir GEORGE F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., that His Excellency is on board the incoming English Mail Steamer Deccan, expected here on or about the 29th instant.
The landing will take place at Murray Pier.
Should the Peak be obscured, a gun will be fired from the Police Hulk, when the Mail is sighted.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1883.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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