1964_ROAD_TRAFFIC_(PUBLIC_SERVICE_VEHICLES)_REGULATIONS — Page 21

1989 Ed.]

Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations

[CAP. 374

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[Subsidiary]

respect of the vehicle, and the registered owner of a taxi, may hire the vehicle to any person at a rate of hire based on the time during which the vehicle is hired with or without additional charge in respect of the mileage travelled by the vehicle while it is so hired, or on such other terms as may be agreed with the hirer.

(2) A condition of the hiring of a vehicle under subregulation (1) may be that it shall be driven only by a person in the employ of the registered owner of the vehicle or that such a person is provided to drive the vehicle.

(3) Before a vehicle is hired under subregulation (1), the registered owner and hirer shall complete and sign 2 copies of a document which shall contain the following particulars--

(a) the rate or scale of charges applicable to the hiring;

(b) details of the third party risks insurance held in respect of the vehicle; and

(c) the names and addresses of the persons who are permitted to drive the vehicle while it is the subject of the hiring and the numbers of their driving licences.

(4) The registered owner shall retain one copy of the document and shall produce it on demand by a police officer made within 3 months after the commencement of the hiring.

(5) The hirer shall retain one copy of the document and shall produce it on demand by a police officer made during the continuance of the hiring.

39. Insurance and driving licence

Notwithstanding anything in regulation 38, the registered owner of a public bus, public light bus or taxi shall not hire the vehicle to any person unless he is satisfied, in respect of each person whose name appears on the document referred to in regulation 38(3) as a person permitted to drive the vehicle, that———

(a) during the continuance of the hiring there shall be in force in relation to the user of the vehicle by each such person, such policy of insurance or such a security in respect of third party risks as complies with the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance (Cap. 272); and

(b) each such person is the holder of a valid driving licence issued under the Road Traffic (Driving Licences) Regulations (Cap. 374 sub. leg.) which entitles him to drive the public bus, public light bus or taxi, as the case may be.

40. Soliciting

No driver or person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the driver of a public bus, public light bus or taxi, shall in any manner attract or endeavour to attract any person in order to induce such person to make use of the vehicle.