1950_VEHICLE_AND_ROAD_TRAFFIC_ORDINANCE — Page 1

Vehicle and Road Traffic.

[CAP. 220

:

CHAPTER 220.

VEHICLE AND ROAD TRAFFIC.

To regulate the use of vehicles, and to provide for the control 17 of 1947.

of road traffic.

[28th March, 1947.]

This Ordinance may be cited as the Vehicle and Short title. Road Traffic Ordinance.

A.

Ordinance

"public vehicle" includes every vehicle which plies for hire or is from time to time let out for hire or is intended to be let out for hire, but excludes any vehicle the plying for hire of which is prohibited by regulation under this Ordinance;

“road" includes every highway, thoroughfare, street, lane, alley, court, square, archway, passage, path, way and place to which the public have access, either continu- ously or intermittently and either of right or by licence, whether the same be the property of the Crown or other- wise; "vehicle" includes every means of conveyance or of transit or other mobile apparatus used or capable of being used on land and in whatever way drawn or propelled or carried, but does not include any perambulator or any conveyance for use solely on railways or tramways.

3. The Governor in Council may by regulations Regulations. prescribe or provide for-

(a) licensing and regulating vehicles and their drivers; (b) controlling and restricting traffic, whether vehicular

or pedestrian;

(c) controlling the use of vehicles, their equipment and

apparatus ;

(d) controlling the conduct of persons using vehicles; (e) the apprehension of persons who commit offences

under this Ordinance;

(prohibiting either absolutely or during specified hours the driving of any specified kind of vehicle on any road on which the driving of such kind of vehicle would in the opinion of the Governor in Council be dangerous or undesirable;

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