Road Traffic (Carriage of Persons in Goods Vehicles) (Consolidation) Rules

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276, Section 77(5))

R 1

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[1st January 1949]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Carriage of Persons in Goods Vehicles) (Consolidation) Rules.

Only bona fide attendants to be carried

2. No person shall be carried in a trailer other than bona fide attendants for the purpose of attending to the trailer and the number of such attendants shall not exceed those prescribed in section 77(1) and (2) of the Act.

3. [Deleted by S 720/2004, wef 7 Dec 2004]

Safety of persons carried

4. No person shall be carried upon a goods vehicle or the goods contained therein or otherwise in such a manner that the person is in danger of falling from the vehicle, and in no case shall any person be carried in a goods vehicle in such a manner that any part of his person extends beyond the body of the vehicle or any part of his person; when he is in a sitting position, is at a height exceeding 3.2 m. from the surface upon which the vehicle rests.

Saving

5. Nothing in these Rules shall be deemed to authorise the carriage of any person for hire or reward on any goods vehicle.

Standing in a moving vehicle

6. No person other than a permitted attendant shall stand in a goods vehicle whilst the vehicle is in motion.

Computation of number of persons carried

7. No person shall be carried upon any goods vehicle in excess of the number which is the resultant of the area in square metres of the floor of the vehicle being divided by 0.372.

Marking of passenger capacity on goods vehicles

8.—(1) No person shall be carried on the floor of a goods vehicle unless a marking or label stating the maximum passenger capacity of the floor of the vehicle as computed in accordance with rule 7 is painted or marked or otherwise clearly displayed at the right side of the rear tailboard of the vehicle or upon some conspicuous place on the vehicle determined by the Registrar.

(2) The marking or label referred to in paragraph (1) shall conform to the specifications set out in the Diagram in the Schedule.

(3) Where the marking or label of a goods vehicle referred to in paragraph (1) is altered or defaced such that it no longer conforms with the specifications referred to in paragraph (2) —

(a)	the owner of the goods vehicle; and
(b)	any person who alters or defaces the marking or label,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (3)(a), it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that another person had altered or defaced the marking or label without his consent or connivance.

(5) A defendant shall not, without leave of the court, be entitled to rely on the defence under paragraph (4) unless, within a period ending 7 clear days before the hearing, he has served on the prosecutor a notice in writing giving such information identifying or assisting in the identification of that other person as was then in his possession.

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