(1) The Manipur Highways Ordinance 1979 shall stand repeated on the day this Act comes into force.
(2) Anything done and any step taken (including order, scheme, rule, form or notice) and any action taken under the repeated Act shall in so far it is not inconsistant with the privisions of this Act be treated as to have been done 'and acted under the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be in force until superseded.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE (See Sections 71,72 & 73) TRAFFIC SIGNS This will be reproduction of the Ninth Schedule to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 except as follows :
Bart A —— Mandatory signs.
Sign No. I —— “Speed limit” and Sign No. 7 —— “use of sound signals prohibited” to be deleted.
Sign No. 2 —— “Weight limit” for the definition plate marking “axles over . . . . . . . tone” signs indicating particular classes of traffic to be Substituted.
Baht C —— Informatory signs.
No. 3 — “end of speed limit”. to be deleted.
[To- Not 4 —- “parking sign”, signs indicating particular classes of traffic to he added.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE (See Sections 72 & 73) DRIVING REGULATIONS
1. The driver of a vehicle or animal shall drive the vehicle or animal as the case may be, as close to the left hand side of the road as may be expedient and shall allow all traffic whichis proceeding in the opposite direction to pass him on his right hand side.
2. Except as provided in regulation 3, the driver of a vehicle or animal when passing shall drive to the right of all traffic proceeding in the same direction as himself.
3. The driver of a vehicle or animal When passing may drive to the left of a motor vehicle or a vehicle or- an animal the driver of Which having indicated an intention to turn to the right has drawn to the centre of the road;
Provided that in no case shall be pass a tram-car at a time or in a manner likely to cause danger or inconvenience to other users of the road.
4. The driver of a. vehicle or animal shall not pass a vehicle travelling in the same direction as himself :
(a). if his passing is likely to cause inconvenience or danger to other traflic proceeding in any direction, or
(b) Where a point or corner or a hill or an obstruction of any kind renders the road ahead not clearly Visible.
5. The driver of a vehicle -or animal shall not, When being overtaken or being passed by any class of traflic, do anything in any way to prevent the other traffic from passing him. '
6. The driver of a vehicle or animal shall drive slowly when;
approaching a road intersection, a Road Junction or a road corner and shall not drive into or cross any such intersection or junction until he has become aware that he may do so Without endangering the safety of. persons thereon.
7. The driver of a vehicle or animal shall on entering a road intersection, if the road entering is a main road. designated as? such, give way to traffic proceeding along that road and in any ethetr case give way to all traffic approaching the intersectlon on h1s nght hand.
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8. The driver of a vehicle or animal shall:
(a) when turning to the left, drive as close as may be to the left hand side of the road from which he is making the turn and of the road which he is entering.
(b) when turning to the right, draw as near as may be to the centre of the road along which he is travelling and cause the vehicle or animal to move in such a manner that'
(i) so far as may be practicable it passes beyond, and so as to leave on the driver’s right hand a point formed by the intersection of the centre lines of the intersec— ting roads; and
(ii) it arrives as near as may be at the left hand side of the road which the driver is entering.
THE THIRD SCHEDULE (See Section 74) SIGNALS
1. When about to turn to the right or to drive to the right hand side of the road in order to pass another vehicle or for any other purpose, the driver of a vehicle shall extend his right arm, or a whip if carried, in a horizontal position to his right outside the vehicle or otherwise so as to be Visible from behind.
2. When the driver of a vehicle Wishes to indicate to the driver of a motor vehicle or a vehicle behind him that he desired that driver - to overtake him, he shall extend his right arm, or a whip if carried, horizontally to his right outside the vehicle or otherwise so as to be Visible from behind and shall swing the arm or the whip as the case may be backwards and forwards in a semi-circular motion, Printed by the Director, Ptg. & Sty, Manipur/400—C/5-12-79.