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 USE OF HIGHWAYS 

The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in exercise of his powers under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956, (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation this twelfth day of March, 1957.



 EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of these Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport.)

Section 42 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956, makes it an offence for any person to sell or hire or offer to sell or hire any helmet as a helmet affording protection to motor cyclists in the event of accident which is neither of a type prescribed nor of a type authorised under Regulations made by the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation as being a helmet recommended as affording such protection.

These Regulations prescribe the types of helmet which may be sold or hired to motor cyclists as helmets which are recommended as affording protection in the event of accident. 