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536 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1863.


Regulation of Public Vehicles.


No. 6 of 1863 .

Title. An Ordinance to provide for the Regulation of Public Vehicles and
Chairs and their Drivers and Bearers, and to license the Hire of
Horses .

[ 8th July, 1863. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the regulation of public vehicles.
[See Ord. No, 8
of 1855, s. 17.] and chairs and for the licensing of the same, as also for the liceusing of persons
letting horses to hire : Be it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

No vehicle to ply 1. No vehicle or chair shall ply for or be let on hire unless and until the owner or
for hire until
licence obtained. one of the owners thereof shall have obtained a licence for the same, which licence the
Penalty for
breach.
Registrar General is hereby required to grant subject to such rules and regulations as
are hereby ordained and authorized . Every person being owner or part-owner of a
vehicle or chair which shall ply for or be let on hire without such licence, and every
driver or bearer of such vehicle or chair plying for, or let on hire without having such
licence as is hereby required, shall be subject respectively for each offence to a penalty
not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Added to by Ordinance No. 6 of 1882.]
Licences to be 2. Every such licence [ " such licences " as amended by Ord. No. 6 of 1882] shall be
taken out and to
be renewed half
yearly, and sums taken out half-yearly or for the residue of the current half-year, and shall expire on
payable for licen
ces ordinary and the thirty-first day of March and on the thirtieth day of September respectively in
special.
each year. Upon the taking out of every such licence there shall be paid to the
-
Registrar General for the use of the Public Treasury the following fee :

( 1.) For an ordinary licence for every wheeled vehicle one dollar.

(2.) For a special licence for every wheeled vehicle two dollars.

(3.) For an ordinary licence for every chair fifty cents.

(4.) For a special licence for every chair one dollar.

(5.) For every driver of a vehicle or bearer of a chair ten cents.

Hours within 3. Every driver of a vehicle and every bearer of a chair, which shall be licensed
which vehicles
may ply for hire, by an ordinary licence, shall be privileged to ply for hire from five o'clock in the
and number of
special licences.
morning until eight o'clock at night. Every driver of a vehicle and every bearer of a
chair, which shall be specially licensed , shall be privileged to ply for hire from five
o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at night. The number of special licences
shall be in the discretion of the Registrar General, in the absence of and subject to any
direction he may receive from His Excellency the Governor.

No holder of 4. No holder of a licence shall ply for hire at any other hour than the hours above
licence to ply
out of hours authorized, but every holder of a licence may drive or carry a fare within unauthorized
unauthorized
by his licence, hours , provided he has been bona fide engaged within the hours within which he is