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(2) The wheels must not be so heavy or so equipped that more than reasonable strain is placed upon the steering-gear.
(3) When ball and socket joints of steering-connections are used the longitudinal or transverse rods, as the case may be, must be supported upon the ball.
(4) The sum of the weight of the omnibus body with its fittings and equipment and spare-wheel or wheels, tools and other gear, fuel, oil, and water, the driver, passengers (seated and standing), baggage, and any other load that the chassis (as defined in the next succeeding clause of this regulation) is, in the opinion of the Inspecting Engineer, likely to carry in service shall not exceed the maximum gross load that the chassis is designed by the maker to carry safely in regular daily passenger service.
(5) In this and the next following regulation “chassis” means the actual chassis that is proposed to be used as supplied by the manufacturer, with its original equipment and with its road-wheels fitted with tires complete (and of the type, sizes, and construction intended for service on the finished omnibus), but does not include any of the following :—
(a) The spare rim and tire or the spare wheel as the case may be ; or
(b) The tools, jacks, and such like gear ; or
(c) The special equipment such as an external rack for baggage, or the extra equipment such as collision-buffers ; or
(d) The fuel, oil, and water.
42. The Inspecting Engineer shall be supplied before inspection of the omnibus (and preferably before construction of the body) with a schedule in detail, describing the several parts included in each of the items (a), (b), (c), and (d) set out in clause (5) of the last preceding regulation, and the respective weights of each of such items shall be then supplied to the Inspecting Engineer, or must be specially obtained without delay if he so requires. In addition, the Inspecting Engineer shall be supplied, before inspection of the omnibus (and preferably before construction of the body), with the following information :—
(i) A copy of the maker’s specifications, plans (to scale), and data covering the design, the strength or capacity, the dimensions, and the weight of the chassis, and including the manufacturer’s certified ordinary allowance for body weight, his ordinary rating of the omnibus in passenger-seating capacity, and the unit weight allowance per passenger, the ordinary rating of the safe-load on the chassis in pounds avoirdupois for regular daily passenger service, and the maximum safe gross-load limit in pounds on the chassis when in daily service :
(ii) Complete information concerning the braking systems, steering mechanism, gear ratios, and relative road speeds, engine revolutions at normal speed, battery capacity, nature or type of head-lamps, and the mechanical signalling device or devices :
(iii) Plans (dimensional and drawn to scale) and specifications covering the design, the nature and quality of materials in the body, its fittings and equipment, together with the actual weight of the complete body with its fittings and equipment : Provided that if the body weight cannot be declared at the time an estimate of its weight shall be given.
(iv) Any other information which the Inspecting Engineer may deem necessary.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(TT. 9/19/14.)

Amending the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of September, 1929.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby make the following regulations in amendment of the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”).

REGULATIONS.

1. (a) THESE regulations may be cited as the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Amendment Order, 1929.
   (b) These regulations shall be read together with and deemed to form part of the principal Order.
   (c) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1929, with the intent that they shall apply to the election to be held in the month of November, 1929, but shall not operate so as to affect the tenure of office or shorten the term of office of any member of the Legislative Council now holding office by election or by appointment in lieu of election pursuant to the provisions of the principal Order.
2. Clause 4 of the principal Order is hereby amended by omitting the word “three” and substituting therefor the word “two.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.