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Vehicles
When using any light or heavy motor vehicle on a public road; all lamps must be
undamaged, unobscured, properly secured, and capable of being lit at all times;
The headlamps, rear lamps and number plate lamps must be kept lighted during the
period;
-> between sunset and sunrise, and
-> at any other time when, due to insufficient light or unfavourable weather
conditions, persons and vehicles upon the public road are not clearly
discernible at a distance of 150 metres.
Provided that these provisions shall not apply to a motor vehicle, which is
parked;
-> off the roadway of a public road,
-> in a parking place demarcated by an appropriate road traffic sign, or
-> within a distance of 12 metres from a lighted street lamp illuminating the
road on which such vehicle is parked.
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Parking of vehicles
(1) No person shall park a vehicle on
a public road--
in contravention of any road traffic sign;
on the same side as a fire hydrant within an area bounded by the
centre-line of the roadway and lines at right angles to such centre-line one
and a half metres on either side of the hydrant, if such hydrant is clearly
visible to and recognizable as such by drivers of moving vehicles, or if it is
indicated by an appropriate road traffic sign;
in any place where the vehicle would not obscure any road traffic
sign;
in such manner as to encroach upon the sidewalk, if any; or
in such manner as to obstruct any private or public vehicular
entrance to such road.
(2) No person shall park a vehicle on
any portion of the roadway (excluding the shoulders) of a public road outside
an urban area or with any part of such vehicle within one metre of the edge of
such roadway except in a parking place demarcated by an appropriate road
traffic sign.
(3) No person shall park a vehicle on
the roadway of a public road within an urban area--
within nine metres of the side from which he or she approaches a
pedestrian crossing demarcated by appropriate road traffic signs, unless such
parking is permitted by appropriate road traffic signs;
within five metres of any intersection unless such parking is
permitted by a road traffic sign;
upon or over the actuating mechanism of a traffic signal;
(i) with the outside of any left-hand wheel thereof more than
450 millimetres within the roadway; or
ii.
where the public road concerned is restricted
to vehicles moving in one direction and the vehicle is parked on the side of
the roadway, with the outside of any right hand wheel thereof more than 450
millimetres within the roadway, unless such parking is permitted by an
appropriate road traffic sign; or
which is less than five and a half metres wide unless the public
road concerned is restricted to vehicles moving in one direction and such
parking is permitted by appropriate road traffic signs.
(4) No person shall park a motor
vehicle on a traffic island or in a pedestrian mall or pedestrian lane.
(5) Vehicles not adhering to the
above may be removed or caused to be removed and impounded by a traffic
officer, and unless the vehicle has been so parked in the course of a theft
thereof, the owner shall bear the costs of such removal and impoundment.
Duties relating to motor cycle,
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle
You may not operate any motorcycle, on a public road unless all lamps
fitted to such motorcycles are undamaged, properly secured and capable of being
lighted at all times; When riding a motorcycle on a public road, the headlamp
must be lighted at all times. (During night and day).
(1) No person shall drive a motor
cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle on a public road unless his or her
feet are resting on the front foot-rests suitable for the purpose and, where
the design of such motor cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle makes it
possible to do so, he or she is seated astride on the saddle of such motor
cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle.
(2) No person shall on a public road
carry a passenger on a motor cycle unless such cycle has an engine with a
cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cubic centimetres and unless such passenger is
seated in a side-car or astride on a pillion attached to such cycle and, in
such latter event, the feet of the passenger are resting on foot-rests suitable
for that purpose.
(3) Not more than two persons
shall ride upon a motor cycle on a public road, excluding a person riding in a
side-car attached to such motor cycle.
(4) Not more than two adult persons
shall be carried in a side-car attached to a motor cycle on a public road.
(5) No person or animal or object
shall be carried on a motor cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle on a
public road in front of the driver thereof: Provided that an object of a
non-bulky nature may be so carried if securely attached to the motor cycle,
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle or placed in a suitable carrier fitted
thereon for that purpose and carried in such a way as not to obstruct the
driver's view or prevent his or her exercising complete control over such motor
cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle.
(6) (a) Persons, other than traffic
officers in the performance of their duties, driving motor cycles on a public
road, shall drive in single file except in the course of overtaking another
motor cycle, and two or more persons driving motor cycles shall not overtake
another vehicle at the same time: Provided that where a public road is divided
into traffic lanes, each such lane shall, for the purposes of this paragraph,
be regarded as a public road.
For the purposes of paragraph (a), a motor cycle shall include a
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle.
(7) No person driving a motor cycle,
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle on a public road or seated on such motor
cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle shall take hold of any other vehicle
in motion.
(8) Any person driving a motor cycle,
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle on a public road shall do so with at least
one hand on the handlebars of such motor cycle, motor tricycle or motor
quadrucycle.
(9) Any person driving a motor cycle,
motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle on a public road shall do so in such manner
that all the wheels of such motor cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle
are in contact with the surface of the road at all times.
This forms part of the amendment of the National Road Traffic Act - created
in 1996 - now Amended
May 2009
Brakes on a Motor cycle or Motor tricycle
150: No Person shall operate on a public road a Motorcycle or motor
tricycle which is not equipped with two independent braking systems, one of
which shall act on the front wheel or wheels and the other on the rear wheel or
wheels and each such system shall have an efficiency at least equal to that
specified for an emergency brake & when the two systems are applied
simultaneously, the combined efficiency shall be at least equivalent to that
specified for a service brake.
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