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Conditions

No person may operate the vehicle from the left hand drive position unless the vehicle is at that time engaged in activities which require left hand drive control for operational or safety purposes.

Category C2: Other Specialist Vehicles

(1) Any vehicle of the following specified types and used solely or principally as such:

(a) a mobile crane;

(b) a vehicle equipped as a hearse;

(c) a vehicle which operates wholly or partly on self-laying tracks;

(d) an agricultural tractor or self-propelled agricultural harvesting machine;

(e) an earthmoving machine.

(2) Any specialist vehicle where the director confirms in writing that the vehicle has special characteristics, or is equipped for special operational purposes, so that conversion to right hand drive is impracticable.

Conditions—applicable only to Category C2 (2) vehicles

In respect of a category C2 (2) vehicle, the vehicle shall be an exempted vehicle only where the director agrees that the operation of the vehicle requires it to have its steering column to the left of the longitudinal centre line.

Category D: Operated by Diplomats and for “Operation Deep Freeze”

Any vehicle that is operated by a person who is, for the time being, entitled to any immunity from jurisdiction by or under the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1968 or the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1971 or by staff and employees engaged in Operation Deep Freeze.

Category E: Previously Exempted

Any motor vehicle which was exempted from the requirements of regulation 70 (1) of the regulations or from any previous substantially corresponding provision prior to the coming into force of this notice. The conditions of that original exemption still apply.

Category F: Vehicles Exempt From Registration and Licensing

Any motor vehicle which is exempt in accordance with regulation 3 of the Transport (Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1994 to the extent specified in Part 1, 5, of the First Schedule of those regulations.

Signed at Wellington this 12th day of March 1998.

SIMON CHRISTOPHER WHITELEY, Manager Safer Vehicles, acting under the authority delegated to me by way of instrument of delegation dated 23 December 1996.

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Transport Act 1962

Approval of Defensive Driving Organisations

Pursuant to section 39A of the Transport Act 1962 and section 48 (2) (a) of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Licensing) Regulations 1987:

Registration and Licensing) Act 1986, I, Alan Woodside, Group Manager Safer People and Operators, hereby approve the following organisations for the purposes of section 68 (1) (h) of the Transport Act 1962 and regulations 11 (1) (b) (i) and 32 (2) (c) of the Transport (Drivers Licensing) Regulations 1987:

Defensive Driving North Shore, Glenfield.

Perfecta Driving School, Hastings.

YMCA of Hawke’s Bay, Hastings.

Signed at Wellington this 16th day of March 1998.

ALAN WOODSIDE, Group Manager Safer People and Operators.

(File: RUO4/5)

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New Zealand Fire Service

Fire Service Act 1975

Dunedin Fire District Notice, April 1998

Pursuant to section 26 of the Fire Service Act 1975, the New Zealand Fire Service Commission hereby gives the following notice.

Notice

1. This notice may be cited as the Dunedin Fire District Notice, April 1998.

2. This notice shall come into force on the 2nd day of April 1998.

3. This notice revokes and is in substitution for all previous fire district notices for the districts listed in the Schedule.

Constitution of Fire Districts

4. The urban areas of Dunedin City are hereby constituted as one fire district.

5. The boundaries of the constituted fire district are defined and delineated on a plan held at the National Office, New Zealand Fire Service, Wellington.

Schedule

• Central Dunedin Fire District
• Southern Dunedin Fire District

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of March 1998.

R. SAMPSON, National Commander, New Zealand Fire Service.

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