Transfer of Motor-Car Regulations, 2003

L.N. 381 of 2003

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Transfer of Motor-Car Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 54 of the Traffic

Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Transport and Communications

has made the following regulations>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Transfer of Motor-

Car Regulations, 2003.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st

December, 2003.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires>

“Ordinance” means the Traffic Regulation Ordinance<

“owner” means the person in whose name a motor-car is licensed<

“vehicle” includes any carriage, car, motor-car, omnibus, or other

means of transport of any class or description intended for the

conveyance or carriage of persons, corpses or goods.

Where any fine is awarded by a court of criminal jurisdiction,

or where a Commissioner for Justice has made an order for the payment

of a penalty under the provisions of the Commissioners for Justice Act,

in connection with any offence under the Ordinance committed by the

use of any motor car or vehicle, and any such fine or penalty, as the

case may be, has not been paid, the Authority shall withhold from

effecting and registering the transfer of the road licence in respect of

that motor-car or vehicle from the owner to any other person, until such

time as the payment of such fine or penalty is effected.

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