VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1912

VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 40 of 1912.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law with respect
to vehicles and traffic.
[6th December, 1912.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vehicles and Traffic
Regulation Ordinance, 1912.





2. In this Ordinance,

(a) 'Driver' includes a rider of a bicycle ot tricycle, a puller
of a jinrikisha, a bearer of a chair and any person in charge of
or assisting in the control of any vehicle ;

(b) 'Heavy motor car' includes every vehicle propelled by
mechanical power which unladen exceeds two tons in weight;

(c) 'Motor bicycle' includes every two-wheeled vehicle
propelled by mechanical power which does not in weight unladen
exceed six hundredweights;

(d) 'Motor car' inciudes every vehicle propelled by
mechanical power which does not in weight unladen exceed two
tons, but it shall not include any motor bicycle or motor tricycle
as defined in this section;

(e) 'Motor tricycle' includes evcry, three-wheeled vehiele
propelled by mechanical powerwhich does not in weight unladen
exceed six hundredweights;

(f) 'Motor vehicle' mcans'a vehicle propelled by mechanical
power;
(g) 'Private vehicle' includes every vehicle which does not
fall within the definition of a public vehicle ;

(h) '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 does not include any bicycle or tricycle not
propelled by mechanical power;

(i) 'Road' includes every highwav, thoroughfare, street,
lane, alley, court, square., archway, passage, path, way and place
to which the public have access, either continuously or inter-
mittently and either of right or by licence, whether the same be
the property of the Crown or otherwise ;
(j) 'Trailer' includes every vehicle designed to be drawn
or prcrpelled by another vehicle;
(k) 'Unladen weight' in relation to a motor vehicle means
the weight of any such vehicle exclusive of the weight of any
load but inclusive of any water, fuel or accumulators normally
used for the purpose of propulsion;

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





(1) 'Vehicle' includes every means of conveyance or of
transit or other mobile, apparatus used or capable of being used
on land aAd 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. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations for any of the following purposes-

(1) for licensing and regulating vehicles and their drivers;

(2) for regulating and restricting traffic, whether vehicular
or pedestrian;

(3) for regulating the use of vehicles, their equipment and
apparatus

(4) for controlling the conduct of persons using vehicles;

(5) for the apprehension of persons who commit offences
against this Ordinance

(6) for 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 he dangerous or undesirable;

(7) for prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of any
licence granted tinder the provisions of this Ordinance;

(8) for prescribing the fares which may be charged for the
hire of any public vehicle;

(9) for granting exclusive rights of maintaining services of
public motor vehicles, for enforcing the obligations of any
persons to whom such rights may be granted, for requiring
security from such persons and for realizing such security, for
the amendment or cancellation of such rights when granted, for
prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of such rights and for
the effective control and protection of such services; and

(10) generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the
provisions of this Ordinance,

and any such regulations made under the provisions of this
section shall be of the same force and effect as if they had





formed part of this Ordinance and every person who contravenes
any of the provisions of any such regulations so made under the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of an offence
against this Ordinance and shall be punishable in manner
hereinafter determined.

4. Every person convicted of an offence against the provi-
sions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable
to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

5. Every person who contravenes the provisions of any
condition upon which any licence under the provisions of this
Ordinance has been issued to or is held by him shall be guilty of
an offence against the provisions of this Ordinance and shall be
punishable accordingly.

6.-(1) Any person convicted of an offence against the
provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made under
the provisions of this Ordinance or of any condition upon which
any licence has been issued to or is held by such person under
the provisions of this Ordinance or any regulation made under
the provisions of this Ordinance may be ordered by the
magistrate to pay to any person to whom such magistrate may
think that any compensation should be paid in respect of any
injury, loss, or otherwise, compensation not exceeding fifty
dollars, in addition to the penalty provided for under the provi-
sions of this Ordinance, and in default of payment of such
compensation the magistrate may order the person ordered to
pay the same to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two
months in respect of such default.

(2) The payment of such compensation or imprisonment in
default thereof shall be a bar to any further proceedings at the
suit of the person to whom any such compensation has been
ordered to be made: Provided that no such order for the payment
of any such compensation shall be made unless the party who
has suffered any such injury or loss or otherwise sustained
damage consents thereto.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
[Originally No. 40 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Penalty for offence against Ordinance. Penalty for offence against conditions of licence. Compensation for injury, how granted. Compensation a bar to legal proceedings but at option of complainant

[Originally No. 40 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Regulations. Penalty for breach of regulations. Penalty for offence against Ordinance. Penalty for offence against conditions of licence. Compensation for injury, how granted. Compensation a bar to legal proceedings but at option of complainant

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