Cycles Act 1955
Download PDF| Year | 1955 |
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| Category | Consolidated |
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Title 21 Laws of Bermuda Item 8
BERMUDA
1955 : 94
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1 Interpretation
2 Handlebars, brakes and other equipment
3 No pedicars on highway
4 Offences
5 Repeal [omitted] [10 November 1955] [preamble and words of enactment omitted]
Interpretation
1 In this Act—
(a) "cycle" means a pedal cycle not propelled by mechanical or electrical power and includes a pedicar;
(b) "highway" and "estate road" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Motor Car Act 1951 [title 21 item 4]; and
(c) "pedicar" means a cycle having three or more wheels.
Handlebars, brakes and other equipment
2 No person shall ride on any highway or estate road a cycle—
(a) which is not fitted with handlebars or is fitted with handlebars having a maximum overall width in excess of thirty inches;
1989 Revision 1
(b) which is not fitted with an effective braking system in working order;
(c) which is not equipped with a bell in good working order and fitted in such a position as to be easily operated by the person riding the cycle;
(d) the outside of the rear mudguard of which is not painted with reflective paint for a distance of not less than seven inches from the bottom and which reflective paint shall not be obscured by anything other than a red reflector carried under section 25 of the Road Traffic Act 1947 [title 21 item 3]; and
(e) the lamp or reflector of which, when required under any provision of law to be carried thereon, is not affixed rigidly thereto.
No pedicars on highway
3 No person shall ride a pedicar on any highway.
Offences
4 Any person who contravenes any requirement of this Act commits an offence against this Act: Punishment on summary conviction: the penalty specified in Schedule l to the Traffic Offences (Penalties) Act 1976 [title 21 item 13].
Repeal
5 [omitted]
[Amended by
1974 : 9
1976 : 30 ]
2 1989 Revision
No cases currently cite this legislation.