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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(5) No motor-vehicle other than an ambulance shall be equipped with a bell as a warning-device.
(6) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle which is not equipped with the warning-device or respective warning-devices required by this regulation, or which is equipped with, or has attached thereto, or in connection with which there is used, any warning-device contrary to the provisions of this regulation.
(7) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle having a warning-device which is not in good working-order.
(8) No driver of any motor-vehicle equipped with a siren (other than a motor-vehicle used by a fire brigade for attendance at fires) shall use the same or cause or permit the same to be used—
(a) At any time or for any purpose within a borough, city or town district, or road district within the County of Eden;
(b) For any purpose other than that of calling the attention of persons (not being persons on a road) to the arrival of the vehicle for the purpose of collecting produce in the ordinary course of trade.
(9) No driver of any motor-vehicle used by a fire brigade for attendance at fires shall use a siren, or cause or permit a siren to be used, at any time other than when responding to an alarm of fire.
(10) No driver of any motor-vehicle used as an ambulance shall use a bell as a warning-device, or cause or permit the same to be used, at any time other than when the vehicle is being used on urgent ambulance service.
(11) No driver of any motor-vehicle shall (except in case of emergency) use, or cause or permit to be used, any warning-device with which such vehicle is equipped otherwise than for reasonable traffic needs.
(12) No person shall actuate any warning-device of a motor-vehicle in such a manner as to produce a shrieking, raucous, or offensive noise.
(13) Every person driving a motor-vehicle on any road shall, upon every occasion when it is proper and reasonable to give notice to traffic of the approach or movements of such vehicle, give such notice by actuating his warning-device in a reasonably sufficient manner.
(14) Every person driving a motor-vehicle used by a fire brigade for attendance at fires shall, while such vehicle is responding to an alarm of fire continuously sound the siren attached to the vehicle, and at all other times shall for the purposes of clause (13) of this regulation use the warning device referred to in clause (1) of this regulation.
(15) Every person driving a motor-vehicle being an ambulance, while such vehicle is being used on an urgent ambulance service, shall, for the purposes of clause (13) of this regulation use the bell attached to the vehicle, and at all other times shall for the said purposes use the warning-device referred to in clause (1) of this regulation.

REGULATION 6.—EQUIPMENT—EGRESS.

(1) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle which is not provided with or constructed so as to afford a ready means of entrance and exit for the passengers and driver thereof.
(2) No person shall operate any public motor-vehicle unless at least one such means of entrance and exit is at all times kept unobstructed.
(3) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle having any door which may be opened and closed (other than an emergency exit on a public motor-vehicle) unless every such door is fitted with a permanently fixed device for opening and closing the door, capable of being operated from both the outside and the inside of the vehicle, and readily available at all times for use by the driver and by the passengers within the vehicle.
(4) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle having seating-accommodation for more than seven passengers unless there are provided and maintained at least two ready means of exit, one of which shall be within 4 ft. of the rear of the body of the vehicle.
(5) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to any motor-vehicle which for the time being is used solely or principally for the transport of prisoners.

REGULATION 7.—EQUIPMENT—GENERAL.

(1) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle having the spindle of the steering column or equivalent means of steering control in a plane to the left of the longitudinal centre-line of the body of the vehicle, unless such vehicle is registered not later than the 31st day of March, 1928.
(2) The Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department may give written permission to any person domiciled elsewhere than in New Zealand for the operation of a specified motor-vehicle not complying with the requirements of the last preceding clause of this regulation during a period or until a date to be stated in such permission; such permission shall be subject to the condition that the instrument conferring the permission be produced by the driver of such motor-vehicle on demand to any Police Officer or Traffic Inspector; and every person operating a motor-vehicle under a permission given as aforesaid shall comply with the condition hereinbefore set out.
(3) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle (other than a motor-cycle not having a side-car attached) which is not equipped with a reflector or periscope so arranged as to enable the driver to be aware without turning his head of the existence or approach of any other vehicle on the right-hand side behind the driver.
(4) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle which is not equipped with a fixed red reflector affixed to the rear thereof as near as possible to, or forming part of, the tail-light, having an effective reflecting surface of not less than 2 square inches in area, and set perpendicularly so as to reflect towards the rear any light shining from rearward of the vehicle.
(5) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle having affixed thereto or used in connection therewith a reflector or reflecting surface serving to throw a beam of red light towards the front of the motor-vehicle.
(6) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle unless all brake mechanisms, steering mechanisms, and axle-spring attachments are safely secured and permanently retained in position by some positive means.
(7) No person shall operate any motor-cycle unless adequate foot-rests are attached thereto for the use of every person carried thereon otherwise than in a side-car.
(8) No person shall drive any motor-vehicle unless such motor-vehicle, including all its equipment, is in such a condition as not to cause or to be likely to cause injury or damage to, or endanger the safety of, any person on the motor-vehicle, or any person, animal, property, or object on any road or other place.

REGULATION 8.—NOISE AND OTHER NUISANCES.

(1) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle—
(a) Unless an efficient silencer or silencing-device is affixed to such vehicle in such manner that the exhaust shall be projected through such silencer or silencing-device:
(b) If any mechanism or device is attached enabling the exhaust to be projected otherwise than through the aforesaid silencer or silencing-device:
(c) Which causes undue noise by—
(i) Being in a state of disrepair;
(ii) The manner in which such vehicle is loaded;
(iii) The construction or condition of any part of such vehicle:
(d) In such a condition that an undue or unreasonable quantity of oil, grease, or fuel is allowed to drop on the road:
(e) If the exhaust gases from the engine are directed in such a manner as to be likely to raise dust from the road-surface.
(2) The controlling authority may give written permission for the operation contrary to the foregoing provisions of this regulation of any motor-vehicle while proceeding to or returning from any place where such motor-vehicle is about to be used or has recently been used for the purpose of racing or speeding on a recognized racing-track; and such permission shall be subject to such conditions as to route to be followed, time during which the motor-vehicle may be so operated, or otherwise as the controlling authority thinks fit to impose.
(3) Every person operating a motor-vehicle under a permission given as aforesaid shall comply with all the conditions set out in such permission.
(4) No person being the driver or in charge of any motor-vehicle—
(a) Shall cause or permit the engine thereof to be run, while the vehicle is stationary, in such a manner as to cause undue noise:
(b) Shall negligently cause or permit the engine thereof to be run in such a manner as to emit smoke or fumes which would not be emitted if the engine were in good condition or run in a competent manner;
(c) Shall deposit or cause or permit to be deposited any petrol or other liquid fuel, or any oil or grease, or any other inflammable or offensive matter from such motor-vehicle upon any road or into any running water.

REGULATION 9.—TOWING.

(1) No person shall operate any motor-vehicle which is being used to tow another vehicle—
(a) If the space between the vehicles exceeds 20 ft.; or