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'File 5/11 II King's Regulations and Amendments under Bahrain Order-in-Council' [‎139r] (277/484)

The record is made up of 1 file (239 folios). It was created in 31 Jul 1945-5 Dec 1950. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Sheet Four
Continued
16.
(a) The Commandant State Police shall appoint
stands or places at which alone ublic conveyance
may stand to ply for hire and may, at any time,
abolish such stand or place.
(b) Such stands or places shall be clearly indicated
by notice boards erected by The Bahrain Govern
ment.
(c) The notice boards erected shall have inscribed
upon them the number of public conveyances
permitted to use a stand at any one time and also
which is the front and rear of the stand.
(d) Drivers of public conveyances will use stands in
order of arrival and will accept fares in order of
precedence on the stand.
(e) No driver, on arrival at a stand, shall place his
conveyance other than at the rear of the rearmost
conveyance on the stand.
(f) No driver on a stand shall accept a fare unless
his conveyance is at the front of conveyances
present on the stand.
17.
(1) Every driver of a public conveyance shall have
with him, when following his occupation as a driver,
his licence granted under this order and an official
list of the legal fares for the tiae being in
force, upon which shall be written the full name
and address of the licence© of the conveyance and an
abstract of the law relating to public conveyances.
(2) Every such driver shall, upon demand by a Police
Officer, produce such licence and list.
(3) Every such driver shall produce such list for the
information of any hirer of, or passenger travelling
in the conveyance.
(4) Lists of fares fixed for public conveyances, as
for the time being in force, together with the
abstract of the law referred to in this section,
shall be prepared by The Commandant State Police
and sold to the Public at a reasonable price.
0FFKr T CES
18. Any licehcee commits an offence against this order who
shall*-
(a) keep or let for hire any public conveyance without
a licence granted by The Commandant State Police.
(b) keep or let for hire any public conveyance on
which tie number and other particulars required by
this order are not clearly inscribed. 19
19. fails, without sufficient reason, to cause his public
conveyance to ply for hire or to follow his occupation when
required to do so by a Police Officer.

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The file contains correspondence concerning amendments and proposed amendments (by means of King's Regulations) to the Bahrain Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1913 (and later Bahrain Orders in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ).

The principal correspondents are the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave). The file also contains draft and published versions of King's Regulations.

The principal amendments concerned are:

  • regulations for the registration of immovable property (Regulation 2 of 1947: Registration of Transfer of Immovable Property in Bahrein );
  • regulations for maintaining supplies and services;
  • regulations for the use of motor vehicles;
  • prevention of the use of narcotics.

The Arabic language content of the file consists of approximately ten folios (e.g. Government of Bahrain notices), all with English translations.

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1 file (239 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after their relevant covering letter, and terminate in a set of notes (folios 201-240). Circled serial numbers in crayon and ink (red for incoming, blue/black for outgoing correspondence) refer to entries in the notes.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 241; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-143; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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