Criminal Law Additions and Alterations
| Published date | 01 October 1962 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002201836202600409 |
| Date | 01 October 1962 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Criminal Law Additions and
Alterations
THE MOTOR VEHICLES (CONSTRUCTION AND USE) AMENDMENT
REGULATIONS
1962. s.
I.
NO. 1584 of 1962.
These Regulationsare to come into force on
rst
November,
1962, and make detailed amendments to
the
1955 Construction
and Use Regulations and contain certain new provisions.
The
matters concerned are the definition of
the
overall length
and
width of a vehicle;
the
fitting of horns and their use;
the
securing of loads; the distance between atowing vehicle and a
trailer and
the
marking of tow chains; the prohibition of certain
vehicles drawing trailers; the prohibition of
the
use of a motor
vehicle and trailers exceeding a total length of eighty-five feet
unless certain conditions are complied with;
the
use of vehicles
carrying wide, long or projecting loads and
the
securing of
implements suspended from lifting appliances fitted to
vehicles.
THE PENALTIES FOR DRUNKENNESS ACT, 1962.
This
Act increases
the
maximum penalties for certain
offences involving drunkenness and those concerning violent
or indecent behaviour at police stations where
the
offence is
committed on or after rst September, 1962.
Amaximum fine of five pounds now applies to
the
offences
of refusing or failing when drunk to quit any premises or place
licensed
under
the
Refreshment Houses Act, 1860 when
requested (s. 41 of the 1860 Act); being drunk in a highway
etc., or on licensed premises (s. 12, Licensing Act, 1872); being
drunk and disorderly and persisting, after being refused
admission in attempting to enter apassenger steamer and being
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