IN exercise of the powers
conferred on the Commissioner
responsible for Transport by
section 33 of the Road Traffic
Ordinance, 1952 (No. 55), these
Regulations are made this 16th day
of July, 1975.
Regulation 1—Fee for Registration
Form.
Immediately after paragraph (1) of
regulation 2 of the Road Traffic
Regulations, 1974 (L.I. 953) there
is hereby inserted the following
new paragraph: —
"(1A) The applicant shall pay a
fee of ¢1.00 for the application
form"
Regulation 2—Fee for Driving
Licence Form.
Immediately after paragraph (1) of
regulation 14 of the Road Traffic
Regulations, 1974 (L.I. 953) there
is hereby interested the following
new paragraph:—
“(1A) The applicant shall pay a
fee of ¢2.00 for the applicant
form.”
Regulation 3—Warning Triangles and
Traffic Lanterns.
(1) For regulation 44 of the Road
Traffic Regulations, 1974 (L.I.
953) there is hereby substituted
the following:—
"Advance Warning.
44.(1) No person shall drive a
motor vehicle (other than a
two-wheeled motor-cycle) on a road
unless there is carried in the
vehicle an advance warning
triangle or a red or amber blinker
traffic lantern of approved candle
light.
(2) Every driver of a motor
vehicle (other than a two-wheeled
motor-cycle) whose vehicle is
stationary on a road at night
without lighted side and rear
lamps or flashing hazard warning
lights shall give adequate advance
warning to approaching drivers of
the obstacle which his vehicle
constitutes by placing an advance
warning triangle or a red or amber
blinker traffic lantern at a
suitable point both at the rear
and front of the vehicle and at a
distance from the vehicle
sufficient to give the warning but
which shall not in any case be
less than 50 yards.
(3) The advance warning triangle
shall consist of an equilateral
triangle with sides not less than
16 inches long and a red border
not less than 2 inches wide, and
with its interior part either
hollow or of a light colour.
(4) The red border shall be
illuminated by transparency or
fitted with a reflectorised
stripe.
(5) The advance warning triangle
shall be such that it can be stood
firmly in a vertical position."
(2) This regulation shall come
into force on the 1st day of
August, 1975.
COLONEL I.K. AGYEKUM
Commissioner Responsible for
Transport
Date of Gazette Notification: 18th
July, 1975.
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