that behalf, We, the Local Government Board, Do by this Our Order make the following Regulations, and Direct that the same shall have effect for the purpose of bringing the Act of 1903 into operation and giving effect to that Act:

PART I.

Registration of Motor Cars.

Article 1.-The Council of every county and the Council of every county borough shall establish and keep a Register (herein-after referred to as "the Register of Motor Cars") for the registration of motor cars.

The index mark distinguishing the Council of the county or county borough with which a motor car is registered shall, as respects the Council of each county or county borough, be the letter or letters shown opposite to the name of that Council in Part I. of the First Schedule to this Order.

The Register of Motor Cars shall be in the form set out in the Second Schedule to this Order, or in a form to the like effect. The Council of any county or county borough may, if they think fit, keep the Register of Motor Cars in two parts, one part relating to motor cars not being motor cycles, and the other part relating to motor cycles.

Article 2.-The owner of a motor car who desires to register it with the Council of any county or county borough shall apply to the Council, and shall furnish them with the particulars set out in the form in the Third Schedule to this Order. A fee of twenty shillings in the case of a motor car not being a motor cycle, or of five shillings in the case of a motor cycle, being the fee prescribed by the Act of 1903, shall be paid before the motor car can be registered.

Article 3.-The Council, on receipt of any such application, and the particulars and fee above referred to, shall forthwith assign a separate number to the motor car, and register it by making the required entries in the Register of Motor Cars. The Council, on the registration of a motor car, shall forthwith furnish the owner of the motor car with a copy of the entries in the Register relating to the motor car.

Article 4.-If the ownership of a motor car is changed, notice of the change shall be given either by the new or the old owner to the Council with whom the motor car is registered, and an application shall also be made either to cancel the registration of the car or to continue the existing registration under the new ownership.

If an application is so made to cancel the registration of the motor car, and no application is made to continue the existing registration of the car, the registration of the car shall be cancelled accordingly, but if an application is made to continue the existing registration of the car, the new owner shall furnish the necessary particulars as to owner

ship, and on receipt of a fee of five shillings in the case of a motor car not being a motor cycle, or of one shilling in the case of a motor cycle (which fees the Council are hereby authorised to charge), the Council shall cause the necessary alterations to be made in the Register of Motor Cars, and shall furnish the new owner with a copy of the altered entries in the Register.

Any notice may be given or application or alteration made under this Article before the date of the actual change of ownership so as to take effect from that date.

If the provisions of this Article as to notice and application are not complied with, the registration of the motor car shall be void.

Article 5.-If any circumstance (other than a change of ownership dealt with in the preceding Article) occurs in relation to any motor car which affects the accuracy of any particulars entered as respects that car in the Register of Motor Cars, the owner of the motor car shall forthwith inform the Council with whom it has been registered, and on receipt of such information the Council shall forthwith cause the entries respecting that motor car in the Register of Motor Cars to be amended accordingly, and shall furnish the owner with a copy of the entries as so amended. No fee shall be charged by the Council in respect of any amendment of entries or transmission of a copy of entries under this Article.

Article 6.-If the Council are satisfied that a motor car which has been registered with them is destroyed, broken up, or permanently removed from the United Kingdom, or registered with another registering authority under the Act of 1903, or if the owner of a registered motor car by application in writing requests them to cancel the registration thereof (except where, in the case of a change of ownership, there is an application to continue the existing registration) they shall cause the entries in the Register of Motor Cars with respect to the motor car to be cancelled, and may, if they think fit, assign the registered number of the motor car to any other motor car whether belonging to the same or any other owner.

Article 7.-The mark to be carried by a registered motor car, in pursuance of Section 2 of the Act of 1903 (in this Order referred to as the identification mark), shall consist of two plates which must conform as to lettering, numbering, and otherwise, with the provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule to this order.

Designs, painted or otherwise, shown upon the motor car may, if it is desired, be used instead of plates, and any reference to plates in this order shall be construed to include a reference to such designs, and any reference to the fixing of plates to include a reference to the painting or other delineation of the designs.

Article 8.-The plates forming the identification mark shall be fixed, one on the front of, and the other on the back of, the motor car, in an upright position, so that every letter or figure on the plate is upright and easily distinguishable, in the case of the plate placed on the front of the motor car, from in front of the car, and, in the case of the plate placed on the back of the motor car, from behind the car.

In the case of a motor tricycle or motor bicycle of a weight unladen not exceeding three hundredweights, the plate fixed on the front of the cycle may, if it is a plate having duplicate faces conforming with the Fourth Schedule to this Order, be fixed so that from whichever side the cycle is viewed the letters or figures on one or other face of the plate are easily distinguishable, though they may not be distinguishable from the front of the cycle.

Subject to the provisions of this Article, the plates forming the identification mark shall be fixed on the motor car in the position indicated in the particulars given on the application for the registration of the motor car, or subsequently furnished to the registering Council, or if that Council are not satisfied with the position so indicated, in such a position as they direct.

So long as the provisions of this Order are complied with, different identification plates may be used on a motor car by day and night or on different occasions.

Article 9.-When another vehicle is attached to a motor car, either in front or behind, the plate required to be fixed on the front or on the back of the motor car, or a duplicate of such plate, shall be fixed on the front or on the back of the vehicle attached, as the case requires, in the same manner as the plate is required to be fixed upon the motor car.

Article 10.--A Council with whom a motor car is registered may, if they think fit, supply to the owner of the car, if he so desires, the plates forming the identification mark on the car, and make a charge for them.

Article 11. Whenever during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise a motor car is used on a public highway, a lamp shall be kept burning on the car, so contrived as to illuminate by means of reflection, transparency, or otherwise, and render easily distinguishable every letter or figure on the identification plate fixed on the back of the motor car, or of any vehicle attached to the back of the motor car, as the case may be

In the application of this Article to a motor tricycle or motor bicycle of a weight unladen not exceeding three hundredweights, the plate fixed on the front of the motor car may, if desired, be substituted for the plate fixed on the back of the motor car.

Article 12.-If the Council of any county or county borough assign to a manufacturer or dealer a general identi

fication mark under proviso (b) to subsection (4) of Section 2 of the Act of 1903, the mark shall be such as the Council direct in each case. Provided that

(a.) It shall consist of two plates, each bearing the index mark of the Council and some other distinguishing letter or letters; and each having placed thereon or annexed thereto some distinguishing number; and

(b.) The colouring of the plates shall be different from that used for the plates forming the ordinary identification mark; and

(c.) The lettering and numbering of the plates shall, so far as possible, be similar to those required in the case of the plates forming the ordinary identification mark.

On every occasion on which the general identification mark is used on a motor car, the manufacturer or dealer shall keep a record of the distinguishing number placed on or annexed to the identification plates on that occasion, and of the name and address of the person driving the motor car on that occasion, and that record shall be open to inspection by the Council or by any superior officer of police or constable authorised by such an officer.

If the general identification mark is used at the same time on more than one motor car, the distinguishing number placed on or annexed to the plates must be different on each

motor car.

The provisions of this Order which relate to the fixing and illumination of identification plates shall apply to the plates forming the general identification mark as they apply to the plates forming the ordinary identification mark.

The Council shall keep a Register of any general identification marks so assigned by them which shall contain the following particulars:

(a.) the name of the manufacturer or dealer to whom the general identification mark is assigned; (b.) the place of business of the manufacturer or dealer; and

(c.) a description of the general identification mark assigned to him.

Article 13.-The Council shall, upon application being made to them by any other registering authority under the Act of 1903, or by any police authority, or by any superior officer of police or constable authorised by such an officer, forthwith provide, free of charge, a copy of the entries in their Register of Motor Cars relating to any specified motor car, or of the entries in their Register of general identification marks relating to any specified manufacturer or dealer. The Council shall also supply to any other person applying for a copy of the entries relating to any specified motor car,

copy of those entries on payment of a fee of one shilling, if he shows that he has a reasonable cause for requiring such a copy.

An officer of the Inland Revenue Department may, without charge, at all reasonable times inspect the Register of Motor Cars and take copies of any entries in it.

PART II.

Licences.

Article 14. A person who desires to obtain the grant or renewal of a licence to drive a motor car or of a licence limited to driving motor cycles under the Act of 1903 shall apply to the Council of the county or county borough in which he resides, and furnish them with the particulars set out in Form A. or Form B. in the Fifth Schedule to this Order as the case requires.

The fee of five shillings prescribed by the Act of 1903 shall be paid before the applicant is entitled to receive the

licence or renewal.

Applications for the grant or renewal of a licence may be received and dealt with at any time within one month before the date on which the grant or renewal of the licence is to take effect.

Article 15. The licence and renewal of a licence shall respectively be in the form set out for the purpose in the Sixth Schedule to this Order or in a form to the like effect.

Article 16. If any person applies to the Council of a county or county borough for the grant of a licence, and the Council are satisfied that he has no residence in the United Kingdom, the Council shall, if the applicant is otherwise entitled, grant him a licence, notwithstanding that he is not resident within their county or county borough.

Article 17.-If a person to whom a licence has been granted by the Council of a county or county borough satisfies that Council that his licence or any renewal of it has been lost or defaced, the Council shall, on payment of a fee of one shilling, issue to him a duplicate licence, or renewal (including, in the case of a duplicate licence, any particulars endorsed or entered upon the original licence under the Act. of 1903 or this Order), and the duplicate so issued shall have the same effect as the original licence or renewal, as the case may be.

Article 18. The Council of every county and county borough shall establish and keep a Register of Licences in the form set out in the Seventh Schedule to this Order, or in a form to the like effect.