MAY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1367

Regulations relating to Registration-plates under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of May, 1933.

Present:

RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirty-six of the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers 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 in amendment of the regulations (hereinafter referred to as “the said regulations”) under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, dated the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the same day, at page 2943, and doth hereby revoke the amendment to the said regulations, dated the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-third day of the same month, at page 1045.

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REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations shall be read together with and form part of the said regulations.

2. For the licensing year commencing on the 1st day of June, 1933, all registration-plates referred to in the said regulations issued under section 6 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1927, shall be metal plates which, for vehicles other than motor-cycles, shall be approximately 13⅞ in. long and 4⅞ in. high, and for motor-cycles shall be approximately 7¼ in. long and 4⅞ in. high.

3. The distinguishing-marks to be exhibited on the said registration-plates shall be as follows:—

(a) For private motor-cars and motor-cycles, as defined by the said Act, other than caravans (as defined in Regulation 5 hereof) and other than private motor-cars or motor-cycles for which any other distinguishing marks are prescribed by these regulations, a series of numerals not exceeding five, either alone or preceded by the letter X.

(b) In the case of plates issued to manufacturers and dealers in motor-vehicles in terms of section 18 of the said Act, a series of numerals preceded by the letter D.

(c) For motor-vehicles exempt from license fees in terms of section 11 of the said Act (other than motor-cycles and motor-vehicles the property of the Crown), a series of numerals preceded by the letter E.

(d) For motor-vehicles the property of the Crown (other than motor-cycles, or unless permission to the contrary is obtained from the Minister of Transport), a series of numerals preceded by the letters GOVT.

(e) For motor-vehicles which at the time when the application for a license is made are passenger-service vehicles within the meaning of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931,—

(i) If the body of the vehicle is designed for the carriage of both seated and standing passengers, a series of numerals preceded by the letter P.

(ii) If the body of the vehicle is not designed for the carriage of standing passengers, a series of numerals preceded by the letter S.

(f) For motor-vehicles which at the time when the application for a license is made are rental cars or private-hire cars as defined in the Motor-vehicles Insurance (Third-party Risks) Regulations, 1933, a series of numerals preceded by the letter R.

(g) For motor-vehicles (other than rental cars and private-hire cars, as defined in the last preceding paragraph) which at the time when the application for a license is made are vehicles described by paragraphs (a), (b), and (c), inclusive of the definition of “passenger-service vehicle” in section 2 of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, a series of numerals preceded by the letter T.

(h) For any motor-vehicle the registration-plates for which are not prescribed by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of this regulation, and the gross weight of which unladen, together with the manufacturer’s rating of weight-carrying capacity, measures over 2 tons avoirdupois, a series of numerals preceded by the letter H.

(i) For any motor-vehicle the registration-plates for which are not prescribed by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of this regulation, and the gross weight of which unladen, together with the manufacturer’s rating of weight-carrying capacity, does not measure over 2 tons avoirdupois, a series of numerals preceded by the letter L.

4. The said distinguishing marks shall be embossed and coloured white on a dark brown ground.

5. (1) If during the currency of a license a motor-vehicle is used for a purpose by reason of which if the vehicle had been so used at the time when the application for a license was made a registration-plate differing from the plates actually issued would, pursuant to these regulations, have been issued, the owner may procure from a Deputy Registrar substituted registration-plates in such one of the forms described as may be appropriate.

(2) If during the currency of a license and after the issue of substituted registration-plates pursuant to the last-preceding clause of this regulation a motor-vehicle is used for a purpose by reason of which if the vehicle had been so used at the time when application was made for such substituted registration-plates a registration-plate differing from the plates actually issued, would, pursuant to these regulations, then have been issued, the owner may procure from a Deputy Registrar substituted registration-plates in such one of the forms described as may be appropriate.

(3) If during the currency of a license a motor-vehicle is used for more than twenty-eight days for a purpose by reason of which if the vehicle had been so used at the time when the application for a license was made, or (as the case may be), when application was last made for substituted registration-plates, a registration-plate differing from the plates actually issued would, pursuant to these regulations, have been issued, then it shall be obligatory upon the owner thereof, within seven days after the expiration of such period of twenty-eight days, unless within such seven days the use of the vehicle for such purpose as aforesaid has been discontinued, to procure substituted registration-plates in terms of this regulation.

(4) No substituted plate shall be issued under this regulation until the owner has surrendered to the Deputy Registrar the plates previously issued for the current year, or on proof to the satisfaction of the Deputy Registrar that such plates have been lost or destroyed.

(5) No fee shall be payable on the issue of any substituted plates under this regulation.

(6) For the purposes of these regulations “caravan” means a motor-vehicle (including a trailer) designed principally to serve as a human abode.

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

(TT. 9/3.)

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Revoking the Vesting in the Wairoa County Council of Land for Tree-planting Purposes.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of May, 1933.

Present:

RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in the Gazette of the fifth day of that month, the land described in the Schedule hereto was vested, subject to the conditions set forth in the said Order in Council, in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wairoa for tree-planting purposes, pursuant to section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1926:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Order in Council should be revoked, and the Wairoa County Council has duly consented to such revocation:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection two of section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1926, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council hereinbefore referred to.

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SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 22, Block III, Mahanga Survey District: Area, 81 acres 2 roods 16 perches.

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

(L. and S. 1/868.)