Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3497

REGULATION 13: ALTERING, DEFACING, OR PARTING WITH A PASSENGER-SERVICE LICENSE, CERTIFICATE OF FITNESS, OR PERMIT, AND ISSUE OF DUPLICATES THEREFOR.

(1) For the purpose of this regulation “document” means any passenger-service license or variation thereof, certificate of fitness, or permit to use a passenger-service vehicle without a certificate of fitness, and includes a duplicate of a document.

(2) No person shall—

(a) Save by direction of the Issuing Authority, alter or deface any document; and any document so altered or defaced shall be void; or

(b) Without authority of the Licensing Authority or the Commissioner, lend or part with any document issued to him.

(3) Upon the return of any document rendered illegible or spoilt by weather or other such cause, or upon proof to his satisfaction that a document has been destroyed, stolen, or lost, the Commissioner of Transport may, upon application of the person to whom the document was issued, and upon payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. issue a duplicate of such document. Every duplicate so issued shall have the word “Duplicate” written or printed thereon, and the production of a duplicate document shall be of the same effect as the production of the original document.

REGULATION 14: INTERRUPTIONS IN SERVICE.

All unavoidable interruptions of a passenger-service which are likely to continue for more than twenty-four hours shall be promptly reported in writing to the Licensing Authority by which the relative license was granted, and shall be publicly notified at least once in a newspaper circulating in the district served. Both notifications shall fully explain the cause of the interruption and its probable duration.

REGULATION 15: RESTRICTION OF ADVERTISING ON PASSENGER-SERVICE VEHICLES.

It shall not be permissible for the owner of a passenger-service vehicle to display on the outside of it any advertisements, signs, or notices other than such as are intended and calculated only to inform the public of the ownership, organization, routes, fares, termini, and stopping-places of the service or services in which the vehicle is used, or of the fact that the vehicle carries mails.

REGULATION 16: REGISTER OF AUTHORIZED SIGNS FOR PASSENGER-SERVICE VEHICLES.

(1) The Commissioner may keep a register of distinguishing words, letters, numbers, colours, marks, or devices (hereinafter together termed “authorized signs”) to be placed or painted on or affixed to passenger-service vehicles, and such register may, in addition, contain such further particulars as the Commissioner thinks fit to identify any vehicle in respect of which has been allotted any authorized sign as hereinafter prescribed.

(2) The applicant for or the holder of a passenger-service license may apply in writing to the Commissioner for permission to have placed or painted on or affixed to any vehicle or vehicles used in the service any authorized sign or signs.

(3) The application shall set forth the nature and the full particulars of the authorized sign or signs which the applicant desires to have placed or painted on or affixed to the said vehicle or vehicles, and the part or parts thereof upon which the same are to be placed or affixed.

(4) The Commissioner may in his discretion grant or refuse any such application.

(5) No person, unless he has obtained permission from the Commissioner so to do, shall place or paint on or affix to any passenger-service vehicle, or shall drive or use or cause to be driven or used a passenger-service vehicle which has placed or painted thereon or affixed thereto any authorized sign or signs which have been entered in the register as aforesaid.

(6) The Commissioner may at any time, in his discretion, by notice in writing to the applicant, revoke any permission granted under this regulation on the ground that the authorized sign or words, letters, numbers, colours, marks, or devices which are in his opinion so closely similar thereto as to be likely to cause confusion were in use by another person for a like or similar purpose before such permission was granted, or on the ground that the authorized sign has become insufficiently distinctive to receive the protection of this regulation, or on any other ground.

(7) The benefit of any permission granted under this regulation shall not be transferable.

REGULATION 17: CONDITION OF LICENSED PASSENGER-SERVICE VEHICLES.

(1) The owner of any vehicle used in a licensed passenger-service shall at all times while such vehicle is so used keep the same in a safe and suitable condition for the carriage of passengers, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or his Inspectors, and in accordance with any regulations that may hereafter be made and may for the time being be in force under the said Act in relation to the construction and condition of passenger-service vehicles.

(2) The owner of any passenger-service vehicle shall submit the same to the appropriate Inspector for examination whenever required so to do by the Commissioner, the Licensing Authority, or an Inspector, and shall not use the same or permit the same to be used for the carriage of passengers at any time while the certificate is revoked by the Commissioner or suspended by the Commissioner or an Inspector.

REGULATION 18: PROHIBITION OF USE OF CERTAIN VEHICLES ON ROUTES WITH ACUTE BENDS.

Unless the Licensing Authority expressly agrees thereto by inserting a term in the appropriate license, it shall not be lawful to use any vehicle under a passenger-service license over a route which is of such description that owing to the size, design, or construction of the vehicle it is impossible for the latter to be driven round all bends and turnings on the route without stopping or backing.

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