Criminal Law Additions and Alterations
| DOI | 10.1177/002201834100500208 |
| Published date | 01 April 1941 |
| Date | 01 April 1941 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Criminal
Law
Additions
and
Alterations
THE
NEW
CONSTRUCTION AND USE REGULATIONS FOR MOTOR
VEHICLES
IN
spite of the war the Minister of
Transport
has found
time to make the Motor Vehicles (Construction
and
Use)
Regulations, 1941, dated the zrst March, 1941, which bring
up to date and replace the Regulations of 1937.
The
new
Regulations embody additions made by various provisional
amendment regulations and also certain modifications of the
original requirements which experience has shown to be
expedient, either to remove inconveniences or to meet fresh
mechanical developments.
The
new material is
not
very
extensive
and
the draughtsman has been able to keep the
same numbering of paragraphs in relation to subject matter
as existed in the old Regulations.
This
reduces to a minimum
the alterations which will have to be made to already printed
summons and other forms in respect of offences committed
on and after the
arst
March.
It
may be helpful to those of
our
readers who have not
means of reference to the various provisional regulations made
since 1937 if we mention briefly the additions to and amend-
ments of the 1937 Regulations which those of 1941 contain.
Propulsion of vehicles by gas as a war-time economy of
petrol account for several of the new provisos. Requirements
as to attendants are, by Regulation 85, not to apply to gas
trailers drawn by motor-cars or heavy motor-cars;
and
the
restriction on a vehicle over 26 feet long drawing atrailer is,
by Regulation 87, removed as respects gas trailers; the
obligation imposed by Regulation 77 on drivers to stop their
engines when stationary is, by a new proviso, removed in
the case of gas propelled vehicles which carry a gas producing
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