Road Traffic Act 1930

59 Regulations.

(1) The Minister may make regulations—

(a) for prescribing anything which under this Part of this Act may be prescribed, and for regulating the number, nature and use of brakes, including skid pans and locking chains, in the case of vehicles drawn by horses or other animals, or any class or description of such vehicles, when used on roads, and for securing that such brakes shall be efficient and kept in proper working order and for empowering persons authorised by or under the regulations to test and inspect any such brakes, whether on a road or elsewhere; and

(b) for prescribing the appliances to be fitted to bicycles or tricycles, not being motor vehicles, for signalling their approach when used on roads and for securing that the riders of such vehicles shall by means of such appliances as aforesaid give audible and sufficient warning of their approach; and

(c) for making provision for the removal from roads of vehicles which have broken down and of the loads carried thereby or of vehicles which have been left in a dangerous position on a road.

(2) Regulations under this section may provide for repealing any byelaws dealing with the same subject matter as the regulations, and for suspending whilst the regulations remain in force any power of making any such byelaws.