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ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I —LICENSING
Regulation
1.
Driving licence
2.
Taxi and passenger lorry licence
3.
Roadworthiness certificate
4.
Number plates
5.
L plates
6.
Marks on commercial vehicles
PART II —USE OF VEHICLES
7.
Opening doors
8.
Alighting
9.
Reversing
10. Obstruction
11. Parking and stopping
12. Traffic signs
13. Traffic lights
14. Police traffic control
15. Speeding
16. Insecure loads
17. Overcrowding front seat
18. Riding outside vehicle
19. Motor cycles
20. Bicycle passengers
21. Unattended vehicles
PART III—CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLES
22. Vehicles in dangerous condition
23. Speedometer
24. Brake lights
25. Indicators
26. Headlamps
27. Windscreen wipers
28. Mirrors
29. Shock absorbers
30. Tyres
31. Spare tyre
32. Silencer
33. Exhaust fumes
34. Bicycle brake, light and bell
PART IV—COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
35. Overcharging
36. Refusing hire
37. Loitering
38. Table of fares
39. Unauthorised stopping
40. Excess passengers
41. Seats
42. Fire extinguisher
43. Unnecessary noise
PART V—GENERAL
44. Penalties
45. Interpretation
46. Effect of Road Traffic Regulations
47. Commencement.
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 10th day of July, 1974.
PART I—LICENSING
Regulation 1—Driving
Licence.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road unless he
holds a valid professional, private or learner driver's
licence authorising him to drive that class of motor
vehicle.
Regulation 2—Taxi and
Passenger Lorry Licence.
(1) No person shall drive a taxi or passenger lorry on a
road unless the taxi or passenger lorry licence issued
in respect of that vehicle is carried on the vehicle.
(2) The driver of a taxi or passenger lorry shall
produce the taxi or passenger lorry licence issued in
respect of that vehicle for inspection at the request of
any police officer in uniform.
Regulation 3—Road
Worthiness Certificate.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle unless a valid
certificate of roadworthiness is carried on the vehicle.
Regulation 4—Number
Plates.
(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle unless the
vehicle carries two reflective number plates one at the
front and the other at the rear.
(2) No person shall drive a motor vehicle if any part of
its number plate is missing or in any way damaged or
obscured.
Regulation 5—L Plates.
No
learner driver shall drive a motor vehicle unless the
vehicle carries two learner's plates or discs displaying
the letter L, in a position where they are easily
visible, one at the front and the other at the rear.
Regulation 6—Marks on
Commercial Vehicles.
The name and registered address of the owner of a
commercial vehicle shall be painted and maintained at
all times in a legible condition on the near side of the
vehicle so as to be clearly visible to a person standing
beside the vehicle.
PART II—USE OF VEHICLES
Regulation 7—Opening
Doors.
(1) No person shall open any door of a motor vehicle
while that vehicle is in motion.
(2) No person shall open or leave open any door of a
motor vehicle (whether the vehicle is stationary or in
motion) so as to endanger any other road user or
pedestrian.
Regulation 8—Alighting.
(1) No person shall alight from a motor vehicle while
that vehicle is in motion.
(2) No person shall alight from a stationary motor
vehicle so as to endanger any road user.
Regulation 9—Reversing.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle backwards further
than may be necessary for turning or some other
reasonable purpose.
Regulation
10—Obstruction.
No
person shall obstruct or permit any motor vehicle to
obstruct the free movement of any traffic on a road,
whether by parking, standing, loitering or in any other
manner.
Regulation 11—Parking
and Stopping.
(1) No person shall park a motor vehicle on a road or
pavement within fifty feet of a no parking sign
prescribed by Road Traffic Regulations:
Provided that (subject to any other applicable road
traffic restriction) a vehicle may be parked on the
opposite side of the road to the no parking sign.
(2) No person shall park a motor vehicle on a road
abreast of another motor vehicle.
(3) No person shall park or stop a motor vehicle within
thirty feet of a junction.
(4) No person shall park or stop a motor vehicle on a
pedestrian crossing or railway crossing.
(5) No person shall park or stop a motor vehicle close
to the crest of a hill or on a bend where visibility is
not sufficient for the parked vehicle to be overtaken in
complete safety.
Regulation 12—Traffic
Signs.
(1) No person shall contravene a prohibitory road sign
prescribed by Road Traffic Regulations which indicates
no right turn, no left turn, no U-turn, no overtaking,
no entry, no hooting, no stopping or no waiting.
(2) No person shall contravene a mandatory road sign
prescribed by Road Traffic Regulations which requires
him to stop, give way, keep left, keep right, turn left,
turn right, observe one way traffic or give priority to
approaching traffic.
Regulation 13—Traffic
Lights.
(1) No driver shall proceed past traffic light signs
when the amber light is showing unless when that light
first appears after the green light has shown the speed
of the vehicle and its distance from the signs are such
that it cannot safely be stopped before passing the
signs.
(2) No driver shall proceed past traffic light signs
when the red light is showing whether or not the amber
light is also showing.
Regulation 14—Police
Traffic Control.
Every driver shall on approaching a police officer on
traffic control duty on any road give an appropriate
signal to him, and shall not make a turn or proceed
along a road or cross a road until the police officer
has signalled for him to do so.
Regulation 15—Speeding.
(1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle in any place
at a speed exceeding that prescribed by any sign
lawfully erected.
(2) Where in a city, town or village no speed limit is
prescribed by any sign lawfully erected, no person shall
drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 30 miles
per hour.
(3) No person shall drive a timber truck at a speed
exceeding 30 miles per hour, or 20 miles per hour if the
timber truck has two or more trailers.
(4) No person shall drive an omnibus or passenger lorry
outside a city, town or village at a speed exceeding 40
miles per hour, unless otherwise permitted by any sign
lawfully erected on a motorway.
(5) No person shall drive a commercial vehicle carrying
freight ( other than a timber truck) at a speed
exceeding —
(a) 20 miles per hour,
if it has two or more trailers;
(b) 30 miles per hour,
if it has one trailer; or
(c) 40 miles per hour,
if it has no trailer.
Regulation 16—Insecure
Loads.
(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle or trailer
with a load or covering which is insecurely fastened or
which becomes loose or detached or in any manner becomes
a hazard to other road users.
(2) No person shall drive a motor vehicle or trailer
with a load which drops, sifts or leaks on to the road.
Regulation
17—Overcrowding Front Seat.
(1) No driver shall, on a right-hand steering controlled
vehicle, permit any person to sit or stand on the right
side of the driver, or more than two persons on the left
side of the driver.
(2) No driver shall, on a left-hand steering controlled
vehicle, permit any person to sit or stand on the left
side of the driver, or more than two persons on the
right side of the driver.
Regulation 18—Riding
Outside Vehicle.
No
person shall ride on the wing, running boards, fenders,
bonnet, steps or tail-board of a motor vehicle or
trailer.
Regulation 19—Motor
Cycles.
(1) No person (whether the driver or a passenger) shall
ride on a motor cycle unless he is wearing a crash
helmet.
(2) No person (whether the driver or a passenger) shall
ride on a motor cycle unless he is sitting astride the
cycle.
Regulation 20—Bicycle
Passengers.
No
person shall whilst riding a bicycle on a road in any
city or town carry another person on any part of the
bicycle.
Regulation
21—Unattended Vehicles.
(1) No driver shall leave a vehicle unattended on any
road with the engine running.
(2) No driver shall leave a vehicle unattended on any
road without having taken due precautions against its
being started in his absence.
PART III—CONSTRUCTION
OF VEHICLES
Regulation 22—Vehicles
in Dangerous Condition.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle or trailer if that
motor vehicle or trailer or any part or accessory
thereof is in such a condition as to cause or to be
likely to cause danger to any person therein or to any
road user or to any property on or adjoining the road.
Regulation
23—Speedometer.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle without a
speedometer,or with a damaged, defective or inoperative
speedometer.
Regulation 24—Brake
Lights.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle without a brake
light,or with a damaged, defective or inoperative brake
light.
Regulation
25—Indicators.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle without at least two
direction indicators, or with a damaged, defective or
inoperative indicator.
Regulation
26—Headlamps.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle without headlamps, or
with a damaged, defective or inoperative headlamp.
Regulation
27—Windscreen Wipers .
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle fitted with a front
glass windscreen if it has no windscreen wiper, or if it
has a damaged, defective or inoperative windscreen
wiper.
Regulation 28—Mirrors.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle without a driving
mirror, or with a damaged, defective or inoperative
driving mirror.
Regulation 29—Shock
Absorbers.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle (other than a
motorcycle) without shock absorbers, or with shock
absorbers which are damaged or inoperative.
Regulation 30—Tyres.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle or trailer if any of
its tyres is so worn as to show any part of the canvas
of the tyre.
Regulation 31—Spare
Tyre.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle unless there is
carried on the vehicle a spare inflated tyre fixed to a
rim or spare wheel.
Regulation 32—Silencer.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle with an inefficient
silencer, or with a cut out or open exhaust.
Regulation 33—Exhaust
Fumes.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle which emits exhaust
fumes in such quantities as to be a hazard or annoyance
to road users or pedestrians.
Regulation 34—Bicycle
Brake, Light and Bell.
No
person shall ride a bicycle which is not fitted with an
efficient brake, light and bell.
PART IV—COMMERCIAL
VEHICLES
Regulation 35—Over
Charging.
(1) No taxi driver shall demand or take more than the
fare which he is lawfully entitled to receive.
(2) No driver or conductor of an omnibus or passenger
lorry shall demand or take more than the fare which he
is lawfully entitled to receive.
Regulation 36—Refusing
Hire.
(1) No taxi driver shall refuse without reasonable
excuse to drive the vehicle to any place indicated by
the hirer if the journey requested by the hirer does not
exceed ten miles.
(2) No taxi driver shall refuse to carry such number of
passengers (not exceeding the number specified in the
licence for the vehicle) as he may be required to carry
by the hirer.
Regulation
37—Loitering.
No
driver of a taxi when hired shall, unless requested by
the hirer, stop the vehicle to collect new passengers,
or stop the vehicle for a longer time than is reasonably
necessary.
Regulation 38—Table of
Fares.
No
person shall drive a taxi unless a legible copy of the
table of fares applicable to the taxi is displayed
therein so as to be visible to passengers and in such a
position as the licensing authority may direct.
Regulation
39—Unauthorised Stopping.
(1) No driver of a taxi, omnibus or passenger lorry
shall stop for passengers at any place except at a stand
appointed by the local authority.
(2) No driver of an omnibus shall take up or set down
passengers except at the stopping places prescribed by
the local authority.
Regulation 40—Excess
Passengers.
No
driver or conductor of a taxi, omnibus or passenger
lorry shall permit the number of persons carried in the
vehicle to exceed the number authorised by the licence.
Regulation 41—Seats.
(1) No person shall drive an omnibus or passenger lorry
unless all seating accommodation is securely fixed in
the body of the vehicle.
(2) No driver or conductor of a passenger lorry shall
permit any passenger to enter the vehicle unless there
is a seat available for the use of that passenger.
Regulation 42—Fire
Extinguisher.
No
person shall drive an omnibus or passenger lorry unless
a fire extinguisher of a type approved by the licensing
authority is carried on the vehicle and kept filled and
in good working order.
Regulation
43—Unnecessary Noise.
No
driver or conductor of a taxi, omnibus or passenger
lorry shall blow his horn, shout, or make any loud or
unnecessary noise to attract the attention of the public
or of a possible passenger.
PART V—GENERAL
Regulation
44—Penalties.
Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any
of the provisions of these Regulations shall be guilty
of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding ¢100.00, or in the case of a subsequent
conviction for the same offence to a fine not exceeding
¢200.00 or to imprisonment not exceeding six months or
to both.
Regulation
45—Interpretation.
(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires:
"motor cycle" means any motor vehicle having a saddle
for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not
more than three wheels in contact with the ground;
"omnibus" means any motor vehicle specifically designed
and constructed for the exclusive purpose of carrying
seven or more passengers and their luggage for hire or
reward;
"passenger lorry" means any motor vehicle (other than an
omnibus) used or intended to be used for carrying seven
or more passengers for hire or reward, the passengers
paying at the rate of separate or distinct fares for
their respective places;
"taxi" means any motor vehicle designed or constructed
to carry not more than seven persons (inclusive of the
driver) used or intended to be used for carrying not
more than six passengers for hire or reward.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires, any reference to a driver or to a person
driving a vehicle includes a reference to a person who
is in charge of a vehicle when used on a road.
Regulation 46—Effect of
Road Traffic Regulations.
The Road Traffic Regulations, 1974 (L.I. 953) shall have
effect subject to the provisions of these Regulations.
Regulation
47—Commencement.
These Regulations shall come into force on the 4th day
of August, 1974.
COLONEL P. K. AGYEKUM
Commissioner
Responsible for Transport
Date of Gazette
Notification: 12th July, 1974.
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