Hong Kong Regulations

CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL BY-LAWS - BYLAW 21

Vehicles conveying dangerous goods

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Subject to this by-law, the Company may fix the hours during which all or
any of the vehicles to which this by-law applies may enter the tunnel area.

(2) A vehicle to which this by-law applies shall not enter the tunnel area
except with the permission of the Tunnel Manager, which permission, if
granted, shall be subject to the following conditions-

   (a)  if hours have been fixed under paragraph (1) in respect of the class
        of vehicle concerned, the permission shall relate only to those hours;

   (b)  a declaration shall be made in writing to the Tunnel Manager by the
        person in charge of the vehicle, or by the person responsible for the
        conveyance of any goods therein or thereon, as to the nature of the
        vehicle and goods; and

   (c)  the Tunnel Manager may provide tunnel officers for the purpose of
        escorting the vehicle through the tunnel area and may take any other
        precautionary measure which he deems expedient in the circumstances.

(3) This by-law applies to-

   (a)  -(b) (Repealed L.N. 10 of 1979)

   (c)  a vehicle conveying any of the goods in Categories 3 to 10 in the
        Schedule to the Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) 
        Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg.), other than Category 5; (L.N. 10 of
        1979; 80 of 1997 s. 102)

   (d)  a vehicle conveying matches in bulk, radioactive substances, or
        biological specimens dangerous to human or animal life.