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Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No. 21 of 1981) - Sect 68

Replacement of section 155 of the principal enactment

68. Section 155 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :
155.
(1) The driver of a motor vehicle on a highway shall give sufficient warning of the approach or position of the motor vehicle by sounding an efficient instrument whenever such warning is necessary for safety or by flashing the headlamp beams in a dipped position :
(2) No whistle or horn, other than a horn sounding a single note, shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be sounded on any motor vehicle on any highway within the limits of an urban area.
(3) Regulations may be made prohibiting or restricting the use, for the purposes of sub section (i), of all warning instruments or any specified instrument, in any urban area or specified part thereof during any specified hours of the day.
(4) In any area in respect of which any regulations have been made under subsection (3), no person shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), use any warning instrument in contravention of those regulations.".


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