1964_ROAD_TRAFFIC_(PUBLIC_SERVICE_VEHICLES)_REGULATIONS — Page 23

1989 Ed.]

Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations

[CAP. 374

D 23

[Subsidiary]

45. General conduct of driver

(1) The driver of a public bus, public light bus or taxi, when acting as such-

(a) shall behave in a civil and orderly manner;

(b) shall be clean and tidy in his person and adequately clothed;

(c) shall not smoke in or on the vehicle when it has passengers on board;

(d) shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of passengers in or on or entering or alighting from the vehicle;

(e) shall ensure that all exits of the vehicle, including emergency exits, are free from obstruction and, when passengers are on board, are not locked;

(f) shall, if requested by any police officer or traffic warden in uniform or any person authorized by the Commissioner, give particulars of his name and address and the name and address of the licensee or owner by whom he is employed;

(g) shall not, at any reasonable time, obstruct, or neglect to give all reasonable information and assistance to, any person having authority to examine the vehicle;

(h) shall not cause the vehicle to remain stationary on a road longer than is necessary to pick up or set down passengers except at a stand or place where such vehicles are permitted to stop for a longer time than is necessary for that purpose;

(i) shall not unreasonably delay the journey; and

(j) shall not congregate or assemble with other drivers to the annoyance of members of the public.

(2) A driver, when in charge of a taxi, shall-

(a) not deceive or refuse to inform a passenger or intending passenger as to the proper fare and route to any place;

(b) at all times when the taxi is available for hire or is hired, carry, for the purpose of giving change, not less than-

(i) $90 in notes of a denomination of $10 or in coins of a denomination of $2 or more; and

(ii) $10 in coins of a denomination of $1 or less;

(c) while the taxi is available for hire, not loiter or stop elsewhere than at a taxi stand except through accident or unavoidable cause;

(d) while conveying passengers to or picking up passengers from any place of public amusement or assembly, draw up in order of arrival as near to the door or entrance thereto as is reasonably practicable and, subject to any direction by a police officer or traffic warden in uniform, drive the taxi away immediately after discharging or picking up passengers.