6. Any road classified under the provisions of Regulation 7 of the said regulations as heretofore in force shall henceforth be deemed to have been classified as belonging to the class of the same name constituted by the last preceding regulation hereof.

7. (1) No person shall operate any motor-lorry if that proportion of the total weight of the vehicle and its load which is borne by any one axle exceeds in weight 6 tons in the case of any motor-lorry having more than two axles, and 8 tons in the case of any other motor-lorry.

(2) No person shall operate any motor-lorry if that proportion of the weight of the vehicle and its load which is borne by the steering axle or (if there are more than two steering axles) any one of them is less than 18 per centum of the total weight of the vehicle and its load.

8. (1) Subclause (b) of clause (6) of Regulation 10 of the said regulations, as substituted by the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 3, is hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor :—

“(b) Every license snall be for a period of one or more license quarters, and the fee shall be paid! on or before the issue of the license.”

(2) Clause (8) of Regulation 10 of the 'said' regulations, as amended by Regulation 4 of the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 3, is hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor :—

“ (8) The fee due for any quarter shall be reduced by one- third for every complete month of that quarter which has elapsed at the date when the term of the license commences.”

9. (1) The license fees prescribed in Regulation 11 of the said regulations as amended shall respectively be deemed to be for four complete license quarters, and the respective fees for one quarter shall be one-quarter of the fees prescribed as aforesaid.

(2) Wherever the context requires in the said regulations or any amendment thereof, except in clause (6) of Regulation 13, which shall continue to be read as heretofore, wherever the term “license year” is used there shall be read in place thereof the term “license quarter,” and wherever the term “annual license” is used there shall be read in place thereof the term “license.”

10. Clause (2) of Regulation 12 of the said regulations is hereby revoked and the following olause substituted therefor :—

“ (2) Such refund shall be one-third part of the quarterly license fee payable in respect of such motor-lorry for every complete month of the unexpired period of the license subsequent to the date of loss or destruction of the lorry.”

11. Clause (9) of Regulation 13 of the said regulations is hereby amended by substituting therein for the words “March, June, September, and December” the words “May, August, November, and February.”

12. (1) Form A in the Schedule to the said regulations is hereby amended by revoking the words between the last brackets and substituting in place thereof the following :—

“[Here state whether the license is required for full license quarter(s) and for which quarter(s), or state the actual months of the license quarter(s) for which the license is required.]”

(2) Form B of the Schedule to the said regulations is hereby amended by revoking the note in parentheses following the statement of the period of the license, and substituting the following words :-

“This license expires on the 3lst day of , 19 .”

13. (1) The owner of any motor-lorry in respect of which a license has been issued for a longer term than is necessary to license the motor-lorry to the end of the current license quarter shall be entitled to recover as a debt due to the owner by the licensing authority any amount in excess of the license fee payable in respect of that license quarter, but the licensing authority shall first be entitled to recall the license and disc issued in forms B and C of the Schedule to the said regulations, and make any amendments thereto necessitated by reason of the operation of these regulations and such refund of license fee.

(2) Nothing in these regulations shall prevent the owner of any motor-lorry from applying for and receiving a license for a term exceeding a license quarter, provided that the term of the license shall expire on the last day of a license quarter, and if issued for a term commencing on or before the 3lst day of May in any year shall expire at latest on the 31st day of May in that year, and if issued for a term commencing after the 31st day of May in any year shall expire at latest on the 31st day of May in the next succeeding year.

(3) A licensing authority may issue a license for a term to commence not more than fourteen days after the day on which the license is issued.

F. D. THOMSON,
(TT. 9/18.) Clerk of the Executive Council.