Road Traffic Act, 1933

Colours of street service vehicles and uniforms of drivers.

138.—(1) The Commissioner may, with the consent of the Minister and after consultation with the local authority concerned, make bye-laws in respect of any specified fare bye-law area for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) requiring every small public service vehicle used as a street service vehicle in such area to be painted or otherwise coloured in whole or to a specified extent a specified colour or combination of colours;

(b) requiring every such vehicle to be marked in a specified place or manner with a specified distinctive number, word, letter, or other mark;

(c) requiring every driver of any such vehicle to wear a cap or hat, coat, and other articles of clothing of a specified uniform pattern and colour;

(d) prohibiting the use (otherwise than as a street service vehicle) in such area of any mechanically propelled vehicle which is painted or otherwise coloured in the manner appointed by bye-laws made under this section for street service vehicles in such area or in a manner so closely resembling the manner so appointed as to be calculated to deceive;

(e) prohibiting the wearing in such area by any person (other than the driver of a street service vehicle) of any article of clothing of a pattern and colour appointed by bye-laws made under this section for the uniform of the drivers of street service vehicles or of a pattern or colour and so closely resembling the pattern and colour so appointed as to be calculated to deceive.

(2) Whenever any vehicle is used in contravention of a bye-law made under this section the owner of such vehicle shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(3) Every person who omits to wear any article of clothing which he is required by a bye-law made under this section to wear or who wears any article of clothing the wearing of which by him is a contravention of any such bye-law shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding two pounds.