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2. (1.) Every one is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds who does any of the following things on a road :— (a.) Drives an entire horse or any savage or dangerous animal loose. (b.) Drives any vehicle in his charge without having reins to guide the horse or other animal drawing the same. (c.) Allows any vehicle drawn by a horse or other animal to proceed along a road without the horse or other, animal being led or controlled by reins. (d.) Does not keep any vehicle driven or propelled, or animal ridden or led by him, on the left or near side of the road when meeting, and on the right or off side when passing, another vehicle or animal, or does not leave a reasonable portion of the road for any vehicle or animal passing him. (c.) Drives or rides any vehicle in his charge after one hour after sunset and before one hour before sunrise without exhibiting a light on such vehicle. (/.) Having charge of a vehicle to which a horse or other animal is attached, leaves such vehicle unattended without the horse being tied up or at least one of the wheels of such vehicle being securely fastened. (g.) Causes or allows any timber or other heavy material not being wholly raised above the ground on Avheels to be dragged on the road. (2.) In this Ordinance, if not inconsistent with the context, "vehicle" means any wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse or other animal or other means, or propelled by any mechanical means, and includes bicycles and tricycles. Passed by the Island Council of Niue, this fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. Joseph P. McMahon-Box, Clerk of the Island Council of Niue. Assented to on behalf of the Governor, this fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. H. Cornwall [l.s.J Resident Commissioner of Niue.

No. s.—The Niue Dog Registration Ordinance, 1916. An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Dogs in Niue. Be it enacted by the Island Council of Niue in Council assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Niue Dog Registration Ordinance, 1916. 2. Subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, any person who keeps a dog of a greater age than six months shall pa}' to the Government a registration fee of five shillings per annum, and such registration fee shall become payable at the Government Office, Alofi, on the first day of April in each and every year. 3. Any person who keeps a, dog and fails to pay the registration fee on or before the thirtieth day of April of the year in which such registration fee becomes payable shall be liable to a fine nol exceeding three pounds over and above the amount of any fee payable in respect of the registration of a dog. 4. In respect to every first registration made after the month of September in any year there shall be payable only one-half of the registration fee. 5. Until payment of the appropriate fee the registration shall not be deemed to have been duly made. 6. There shall be supplied to every person who registers a, dog a dog-collar bearing a metal label affixed thereto, such label having marked thereon the registered number and the year for which the same is issued. 7. Duplicate collars shall be issued on payment of the original cost thereof on affirmation that the original has been lost or stolen. 8. The name and residence of every person who procures a collar shall be entered in a register-book to be kept for that purpose at the Government Office, and opposite the name shall be registered the number of each collar purchased by such person, and a description of the dog by which such collar is to be worn. 9. Every person who wilfully inserts or omits, or wilfully causes or permits to be inserted or omitted, in any such description any matter or thing contrary to, or for the purpose of concealment, the truth is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. 10. Where the ownership of a dog is changed the registration of such clog shall continue good, and the registration collar shall, upon the application of the new owner, remain with the dog ; but the name of the new owner of such dog shall, upon application by him, be entered in the register-book in substitution of the name of the previous owner thereof without payment of any fee; and thereupon, for the purpose of this Ordinance, such new owner shall take the place of the previous owner. 11. Dogs without collars having the proper registration labels thereon shall prima facie be deemed to be unregistered; and any person upon whose land such dog is found, or his agent, or any person duly authorized by the Government, may destroy any such dog. 12. Every one who falsely makes or counterfeits, or, knowing the same to be counterfeit, purchases, uses, or has in his possession, any label resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for a metal label supplied at the Government Office under this Ordinance is for every such offence liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.