Seats, determination of seating capacity

(1) Every licence issued for a taxi, freight passenger vehicle or motor omnibus shall state in the part marked “seats” the maximum number of persons including the driver that such vehicle shall carry. In determining the number of persons for which such vehicle has seating capacity– (a) where separate seats for each person are provided one person shall be counted for each separate seat provided; or (b) where the vehicle is provided with continuous seats one person shall be counted for each complete length of 15" measured in a straight line lengthwise on the front of such seat, and where any such continuous seat is fitted with arms for the purpose of separating the seating spaces and such arms are so constructed that they can be folded back or otherwise put out of use such seat shall be measured for the purpose of these Regulations as if it had not been fitted with such arms. (2) (a) Where a motor vehicle is fitted with a continuous front seat, only two persons, including the driver, shall be carried on such seat unless the vehicle is licensed to carry thereon three persons, including the driver. (b) A vehicle shall not be so licensed unless the seat complies with the provisions of paragraph (l)(b) of this regulation and in the opinion of a transport officer the seating of three persons thereon would not interfere with 106 or encumber the driver of the vehicle in the proper control thereof. Passengers to be seated within (3) No person shall be carried in any sidecar attached to a motor cycle unless seated within it and not on any part of the body thereof. No person to be carried between the driver and the side of the (4) No person shall be seated or carried in the case of a motor vehicle steered from the right-hand side between the driver and the right side of the motor vehicle and in the case of a vehicle steered from the left-hand side between the driver and the left side of the vehicle. (5) No taxi, freight passenger vehicle or motor omnibus shall carry more persons than the number stated in the licence in the part marked “seats”: Provided that where children not exceeding fourteen years of age are carried on such a motor vehicle any three such children shall be reckoned as two passengers and no child under three years of age shall be reckoned as a passenger. Seats to be fixed and passengers (6) Every motor vehicle carrying passengers shall be provided with fixed seats and no person shall be permitted to travel on any motor vehicle unless seated on such a seat.