Numb. 42.

1873

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930.

Amending Regulations as to the Use of Motor-lorries.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day of May, 1930.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Public Works Act, 1928, and every other power and authority in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations by way of amendment to the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927; and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into operation on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 4.

2. In these regulations “the said regulations” means the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927.

3. Clause (1) of Regulation 1 of the said regulations is hereby amended—

(a) By substituting “May” for “March” in the definition of “license year”;

(b) By inserting, after the definition of “license year,” the following definition :—

“License quarter” means any period of three months ending on the last days of August, November, February, and May; and

(c) By inserting after the definition of “motor-lorry” the following definitions :—

“Axle” means any part of a vehicle through which weight is transmitted directly through a bearing to a road-wheel or the equivalent thereof or to two or more road-wheels or their equivalent being substantially in alignment, and which forms an axis for such road-wheel or road-wheels or its or their equivalent: Provided that two axles substantially in alignment shall be deemed for the purposes of this definition to be one axle.

“Multi-axled motor-lorry” includes—

(a) A six-wheeled motor-lorry as herein defined;

(b) Any motor-lorry specially designed or adapted so that the weight of the vehicle and its load is carried on more than two axles with their respective road-wheels, and having not less than two wheels to each axle, and approved by the Minister individually or as a class or type for the purposes of this definition.

4. Regulation 3 of the said regulations is hereby amended by substituting the words “multi-axled motor-lorry” for the words “six-wheeled motor-lorry” wherever the latter words occur in the said regulation.

5. Clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations, as amended by clause (1) of Regulation 3 of the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 2, is hereby amended by revoking all words after the words “the following classes, namely,” and substituting therefor the following :—

“First Class: Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry (subject to Regulation 3).

“Second Class: Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry, other than a multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 8 tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 10 tons.

“Third Class: Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry, other than a multi-axled motor-lorry, which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 6½ tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 8 tons.

“Fourth Class: Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry, other than a multi-axled motor-lorry, which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 4½ tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 6½ tons.

“Fifth Class: Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry, other than a multi-axled motor-lorry, which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 2½ tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 4½ tons.”