S.L. 65.11 Art. 62Licence to keep a garage.

(1) No person shall garage more than four motor vehicles in any premises without a private garage licence, or a motor vehicle licensed for hire without a public service garage licence.

(2) The number of motor vehicles garaged in any premises shall be determined by the number of such vehicles using a common exit or entrance to the road: Provided that, for the purpose of determining the number of such vehicles, two motor cycles shall be deemed equivalent to one motor vehicle.

(3) The licensee of a private garage shall keep a register containing the registration number, and the name and the address of the owner or owners of the vehicles garaged therein the number of vehicles listed in the register may be varied from time to time upon a request in writing to the Authority to this effect.

(4) A public service garage licence shall authorise the holder thereof to garage therein motor vehicles licensed for hire, the registration number of which shall appear on the public service garage licence itself: Provided that, subject to the requirements of sub-regulation

(3) of this regulation, a public service garage licence shall be deemed to include a private garage licence.

(5) A public service garage licence shall authorise the licensee to hire from such garage only motor vehicles registered and licensed in his name for hire as may be garaged therein in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (4) of this regulation.

(6) No person shall have registered and licensed in his name any motor vehicle for hire unless he is licensed to keep a public service garage.

(7) No person holding a public service garage licence, and no member of his family residing with him in the same house, shall have registered in his name more than two private cars.

(8) The licensee of a public service garage shall keep a register containing the following information:

(a) the date and the time of departure and arrival of each motor vehicle hired therefrom;

(b) the name, licence number and identification tag number of the driver; and

(c) the name, address and licence number of any person hiring a motor vehicle to be driven by the hirer.

(9) No person may hire a motor vehicle licensed for hire except from a public service garage.

(10) Licences to keep a private garage or a public service garage shall be issued by the Commissioner of Police and the Authority respectively, provided that a public service garage licence shall cease to be valid when the holder thereof holds no licences in his name in respect of motor vehicles licensed for hire and authorised to be garaged therein.

(11) The Authority shall at the request of the holder of a public service garage licence, grant him a special licence authorising him to utilize additional premises, which are suitable for the storage of motor vehicles, for the sole purpose of garaging motor vehicles for hire registered in the holder’s name: Provided that it shall be a condition in the said special licence that no hire services whatsoever are to be offered from, and no offices installed in, the additional premises so licensed.

(12) For the purposes of this regulation, "motor vehicles licensed for hire" means motor cars for hire, self-drive cars, low-powered vehicles for hire and motor cycles for hire, but does not include taxi-cars or motor route buses.