Hong Kong Regulations

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONTROL OF INTERFERENCE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Users

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The requirement referred to in regulation 7 shall be complied with in the
case of every apparatus to which these regulations apply, whether
manufactured, assembled, installed, imported, purchased, hired or otherwise
obtained before or after the day on which these regulations are published in
the Gazette, if such apparatus is to be used in Hong Kong: (L.N. 256 of 1994)
Provided that in the case of the ignition apparatus of an internal combustion
engine the use of the apparatus shall be deemed to comply with the said
requirement if the person using the apparatus establishes-

   (a)  that suppressors were fitted to the apparatus by the manufacturer,
        assembler or importer of the vehicle, vessel or engine of which the
        apparatus forms part; and

   (b)  that the suppressors so fitted remained fitted to the apparatus at the
        time of use, or that suppressors having the same electrical
        characteristics had been correctly fitted to the apparatus at that
        time in substitution for those fitted as aforesaid, and in either case
        that the suppressors were then in good electrical and mechanical
        repair and condition; and

   (c)  that the apparatus at the time of the use consisted of the same
        components as those which were fitted at the time when the vehicle,
        vessel or engine of which the apparatus forms part was manufactured or
        assembled, or that any components which had been substituted for those
        components had the same electrical characteristics and had been
        correctly fitted.

(2) Save as provided in paragraph (3) and in regulation 9, it shall not be
unlawful for any person to use any apparatus to which these regulations apply
by reason only that it does not comply with the requirement referred to in
regulation 7, but the non-compliance therewith shall be a ground for the
giving of a notice under regulation 5.

(3) Any person who uses any internal combustion engine the ignition apparatus
of which does not comply with the requirement referred to in regulation 7
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction, in
the case of the first such offence, to a fine of $1000 and, in the case of any
subsequent such offence, to a fine of $5000. (L.N. 153 of 1993; L.N. 256 of
1994)