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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(f) Where not incompatible with the foregoing requirements
of this clause, or otherwise impracticable, have its
centre at a height of approximately 3½ ft. above the
level of the road :

Provided that the requirements of paragraph (f)
of this clause shall not apply to signs of Class A.

(19) In every district or part of a district where a system
of street-lighting is in existence the local authority shall
cause a street-lamp or other lamp to be placed in such a
position as adequately to illuminate the face of every traffic
sign maintained by any competent controlling authority
which refers to conditions normally requiring extra caution
after dark as well as by day, or only after dark, and shall
cause such lamp to be kept alight during the time in which
street-lamps in the locality are for the time being usually
kept alight.

(20) No local authority shall erect or maintain, or cause or
permit to be erected or maintained, or to be on any road or in
any place visible from a road any traffic sign in any of the
forms hereinbefore described which is not used solely for
denoting some matter or conveying some information hereby
authorized to be denoted or conveyed by means of traffic
signs.

(21) No person shall, except in the capacity of an employee
of the controlling authority, erect or maintain, or cause or
permit to be erected or maintained, or to be on any road or in
any place visible from a road, any traffic sign, unless au-
thorized thereto by writing under the seal of the controlling
authority (being a corporate body) or in writing duly verified
by the controlling authority (not being a corporate body)
having control of such road.

(22) No person shall erect or maintain, or cause or permit
to be erected or maintained, or to be on any road or in any
place visible from a road, any sign, device, or object liable to
be mistaken for a traffic sign of any of the forms hereinbefore
described.

(23) Save with the consent in writing of the Minister, no
person shall cause or permit his name, or the name of any
business carried on by him, or the name of any wares dealt
with by him, to be displayed on a sign which is so erected or
maintained that its erection or maintenance constitutes a
breach of any provision of this regulation :

Provided that it shall be a defence to any person charged
with an offence against this clause if such person proves that
the sign was erected and maintained without his knowledge,
or that before the date of the offence he gave notice in writing
to the occupier of the land on which the sign is erected re-
quiring such occupier forthwith to remove the sign.

(24) No person shall remove, mutilate, obscure, or in any
manner damage or interfere with any traffic sign erected under
this regulation.

(25) It shall be a defence to any person charged with
driving a motor-vehicle at a speed in excess of a speed-limit
imposed under clause (4) of Regulation 15 hereof if such
person proves that at the time and place of the alleged offence
the traffic signs required by clause (13) hereof were not duly
erected and maintained.

(26) All signs or signals relating (whether exclusively or not)
to the guidance of motor traffic and operated by or through
mechanism shall, if erected after the 1st day of June, 1933,
be of a type approved by the Minister.

(27) Save as hereinbefore provided, the provisions of this
regulation shall apply as well to signs of a temporary nature
as to those erected in a permanent manner.

(28) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
regulation, traffic signs (hereinafter referred to as “ lighthouse
signs ”) of the type in which the warning is conveyed partly
by a flashing lamp or light, or by a reflector, and partly by
appropriate words or approved symbols, or both, may, if
they conform to the following description and requirements,
be used in addition to the traffic sign of Class A and in
substitution for the traffic signs of Classes B and C under
this regulation.

(29) Only clauses (17), (18), (21), (22), (23), and (24) of this
regulation shall apply to lighthouse signs.

(30) The symbol to be used in a lighthouse sign to denote
the proximity of a railway level crossing shall be the letters
“ R.R. ” No other symbol shall be used in a lighthouse
sign unless the symbol is already approved by the Minister
for use for traffic signs by notice published in the Gazette.

(31) Lighthouse signs shall be substantially in the form of
the diagram in the Third Schedule hereto, and shall be of the
measurements indicated and of the colouring described in
the said Schedule.

(32) Where a lighthouse sign is proposed to be erected by
any person authorized thereto by the controlling authority
pursuant to clause (21) of this regulation, no such authorization
shall have any force unless given by an agreement in writing
(the terms of which are approved in writing by the Minister)
made between the controlling authority and such person.

REGULATION 17.—HIRING OF MOTOR-VEHICLES.

(1) Every person carrying on the business of letting motor-
vehicles for hire (hereinafter referred to as a “ garage-
proprietor ”) shall keep a register, and make or cause to be
made therein the entries hereinafter referred to.

(2) Neither a garage-proprietor nor any person employed
by or acting on behalf of a garage-proprietor shall give
delivery to any person of a motor-vehicle let on hire until—
(a) An entry has been made in the register setting out—
(i) The time and date of delivery ;
(ii) The registered number of the motor-vehicle ;
(iii) The name of the person to whom delivery is
given ;
(iv) If such person is himself to drive the motor-
vehicle the name of the local authority
by whom his driver’s license was issued and
the date of that license :
(v) If any other person is to drive the motor-
vehicle, then the name of such person, the
name of the local authority by whom his
driver’s license was issued, and the date of
that license :
(b) The garage-proprietor or some person on his behalf has
inspected such driver’s license and verified the-
particulars required to be entered in the register :
(c) The foregoing particulars shall have been verified by
the signature in the register of the person to whom
delivery is given.

(3) If delivery of a motor-vehicle be given elsewhere than
at the garage-proprietor’s place of business, it shall be
sufficient compliance with this regulation if the foregoing
particulars and signature be taken on a detached paper and
affixed in the register at some time on the same or the
following day.

(4) Every garage-proprietor shall, whenever required so
to do, produce his register for inspection or copying by any
Police Officer or Traffic Inspector, and on ceasing to make
further entries in any volume of his register, shall deliver the
same for custody for one year, and subsequent destruction,
to the officer in charge of the police-station nearest to his
place of business.

(5) This regulation shall not apply to any case in which the
garage-proprietor supplies a driver for the motor-vehicle and
it is not intended that the motor-vehicle should be driven
during the period of hiring by any person other than the
driver so supplied.

(6) This regulation shall not apply to any case in which a
motor-vehicle is hired under a hire-purchase agreement or
for a period exceeding one month.

REGULATION 18.—ACCIDENTS.

(1) If any motor-vehicle is involved in an accident causing
or likely to cause the death of any person the Police Officer
or Traffic Inspector (if any) first on the scene of the accident
shall furnish a report to the Minister through the Commissioner
of Police, or the controlling authority by which the Traffic
Inspector was appointed (as the case may be), in the form set
forth in the First Schedule hereto, giving details of the
accident and all particulars set forth in the form so far as
applicable, and so far as such particulars are available.

(2) A copy of the reports of all proceedings before any
Coroner arising out of any motor-accident, and of the Coroner’s
findings relative thereto, shall be forwarded to the Minister
by the Under-Secretary of Justice.

REGULATION 19.—OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

(1) Every person who does or omits, or causes or knowingly
permits or suffers to be done or omitted, any act, matter,
or thing contrary to the provisions of these regulations, or
fails to comply with any requirement hereby imposed on such
person, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of these
regulations ; and if such act or omission or failure occurs
on more than one day, such person shall be deemed to have
committed a separate breach of these regulations on each
day on which such act or omission or failure has occurred.

(2) Every person who commits a breach of these regulations
shall be liable for every such breach to a fine not exceeding £50.

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SCHEDULES.

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First Schedule.

MOTOR-VEHICLES ACT, 1924.

Motor-vehicle Regulations, 1933.

Hon. Minister of Transport.

I HAVE to report the following accident, which resulted in
grave injuries [or death] to [Name and address], and which
occurred at [Exact locality], as described by sketch on the
back hereof. The accident took place at [Time] on the
[Date], and in my opinion was caused by
The driver responsible is [is not] being prosecuted for
Result of prosecution : . . . . . . .
[Further remarks (including recommendations, if any, for
the prevention of similar accidents).]
Dated at , this day of , 19 .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Police Officer.
[Or Traffic Inspector.]