Road Traffic Act, 1933

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Bye-laws for the control of traffic in specified areas.

149.—(1) The Commissioner may, with the consent of the Minister and after consultation with the local authority concerned, make, in respect of any specified area and either generally for all times and occasions or specially for limited periods or particular occasions, bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) prescribing the routes or courses to be taken by vehicles passing along, crossing, or turning into or out of roads generally or any specified road and in particular requiring different classes of vehicles to adhere to different lines or courses when passing along roads generally or any specified road;

(b) prohibiting any specified class of vehicle or any vehicle carrying specified goods or a specified class of load from entering or passing along any specified road (except for the purpose of going to or coming away from a place in such road) either at any time or during specified hours;

(c) requiring vehicles passing along any specified road either at any time or during specified hours to proceed in a specified direction only;

(d) prohibiting the passage whether on a vehicle or by human portage or otherwise through any specified road either at any time or during specified hours of any article exceeding a specified length or a specified breadth;

(e) prohibiting the passage through any specified road either at any time or during specified hours of any vehicle laden with an article which projects more than a specified distance behind the rear of such vehicle or more than a specified distance beyond the side of such vehicle;

(f) regulating and controlling the conduct of pedestrians in roads generally or any specified road and in particular the crossing of the roadway of roads generally or of any specified roads by pedestrians;

(g) prohibiting the passage through any specified road either at any time or during specified hours of a vehicle drawn by more than a specified number of horses or by more than a specified number of horses harnessed in a particular manner;

(h) prohibiting the loading or unloading of goods of any particular class or kind on, through, or across the footway in any specified road either at any time or during specified hours;

(i) prohibiting either at any time or during specified hours the lifting or lowering of goods by means of ropes chains, tackles, or other machinery across or over the footway of any specified road;

(j) restricting and controlling the carriage or distribution in or placing on the surface of roads, by way of advertisement of pictures, prints, boards, placards, or notices;

(k) restricting and controlling the driving, leading, or otherwise conducting of animals (other than horses, asses, and mules and other than animals carried in vehicles) in roads;

(l) restricting and controlling the deposit of goods in roads and in particular the depositing in roads of goods being loaded on or into or unloaded from a vehicle;

(m) restricting and controlling the washing of footways in roads and of doorsteps leading on to such footways by means of water delivered from a hose or otherwise under pressure;

(n) controlling the conduct of persons waiting in roads for transport or for admission to a building or other place or for any other lawful purpose and in particular requiring such persons to arrange themselves in queues and regulating the formation of such queues.

(2) Every person who does any act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of a regulation made under this section shall (subject to the provisions of this section) be guilty of an offence under this section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds.

(3) Where a person is charged with having committed an offence under this section it shall be a good defence to such charge to prove that the act alleged to constitute such offence was done bona fide and reasonably for the purpose or in the course of saving or endeavouring to save some person or property from death, destruction, or injury by fire, flood or other calamity.