THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 1, 1921.
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Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to limit the right of the licensee to issue season tickets or punch tickets covering a number of journeys.
Regulations as to Passengers, je.
36. The purchase of a ticket shall not entitle any passenger to accommodation by a particular motor vehicle or to travel in a superior class to that for which the ticket is issued, even if the class for which the ticket is issued contains its authorised complement.
37. All tickets issued in exchange for payment (with the exception of season tickets) must be handed over to be punched or inspected by the licensee's collector on demand. Season tickets must be produced for inspection on demand.
38. No passenger shall speak to any driver of any of the licensee's motor vehicles while such driver is in charge of such vehicle.
39. No person shall wilfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the licensee in the lawful discharge of his duties or the lawful exercise of any of the powers conferred by these regulations.
40. No person shall knowingly and wilfully, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare by any of the licensee's motor vehicles, refuse or neglect to quit such vehicle.
41. No person shall travel or attempt to travel on any of the licensee's motor vehicles without paying his fare and proper charges, and with intent to avoid such. payment.
42. No person shall travel or attempt to travel on any of the licensee's motor vehicles after being requested to leave it by any servant of the licensee.
43. No person shall alight from or attempt to alight from, or enter or attempt to enter, any of the licensec's motor vehicles while in motion or otherwise than by the proper entrances or exits.
44. No intoxicated person or person suffering from infectious or contagious disease shall enter or travel or attempt to enter or travel on any of the licensee's motor vehicles,
45. No person shall bring into any of the licensee's motor vehicles any dangerous or obnoxious goods, or, except in the case of police officers, any loaded firearms.
46. No person shall smoke in any of the licensee's motor vehicles except in such part as may be especially reserved for smoking nor shall any person expectorate, use obscene language or play any musical instrument on such vehicle.
Cancellation of Licence.
47. If in the opinion of the Governor in Council there has been a substantial and continued failure on the part of the licensee to comply with the provisions of any of these regulations, he shall direct the Director of Public Works to serve on the licensee a notice specifying the nature and extent of such failure, and requiring the licensee to reply and show cause in writing, within 14 days from the date of the service of such notice, why his licence should not be cancelled forthwith.
48. If the licensee fails, within 14 days after the service of such notice, to reply and show cause why his licence should not be cancelled, or if the Governor in Council, after considering the licensee's reply, is of the opinion that the licensee has not shown cause why his licence should not be cancelled, the Governor in Council may issue an order cancelling the licence in question, and every such order shall be posted to the licensee at his last known address and published in the Gazette.
49. All the rights and obligations of any licensee whose licence has been cancelled as hereinbefore provided shall cease and determine absolutely as from the date of the order of cancellation, and the security required from and furnished by such licensee shall become forfeited to the Colonial Government as from the same date, provided that the Governor in Council may in his discretion allow any such mitigation or reduction as he may deem fit in the matter of the forfeiture of any security.
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