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Roads Regulation 1937

This reprint of this Statutory Instrument incorporates all amendments, if any, made before25 November 2006 and in force at  1 July 2001.

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Legislative Counsel
Dated 25 November 2006

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 221.

Roads Regulation 1937

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Roads Regulation 1937

MADE under the Administrators Powers Act 1923 of the former Territory of New Guinea (Adopted).

Dated                   200 .

1. CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATION ON APPLICATION OF REGULATION.

By virtue of Section Sch.2.6(2) (adoption of pre-Independence laws) of the Constitution, this Regulation applies in relation to the area that, immediately before Independence Day, formed the Territory of New Guinea.

2. INTERPRETATION.

In this Regulation–

“coconut” includes any part of a coconut;

“road” means a road or track used by, or open to the use of, the public.

3. TRANSPORT OF COCONUTS, ETC., BY ROAD DURING PROHIBITED HOURS.

(1) This section does not apply within a town.

(2) A person who, without the prior written consent of a District Officer, uses a road for the transport of coconuts or copra between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: A fine not exceeding K100.00 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

4. RESPONSIBILITY OF PRINCIPAL FOR AGENT, ETC.

Where an agent or employee of a person commits an offence against this Regulation, the person shall be deemed also to be guilty of the offence.

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