Hong Kong Regulations

COUNTRY PARKS AND SPECIAL AREAS REGULATIONS,COUNTRY PARKS AND SPECIAL AREAS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 20

Offences and penalties

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Any person who contravenes regulation 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13(3)
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2000 and to imprisonment for 3
months and, where the offence is a continuing offence to an additional fine of
$100 for each day during which the offence has continued.

(2) Any person who when driving a vehicle or riding a bicycle or horse within
a country park or special area refuses or wilfully fails to stop when called
upon to do so by an authorized officer acting in the course of his duties
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2000 and to imprisonment for 3
months.

(3) Any person who contravenes regulation 7(1) or, when the Authority has
prohibited the use of fire under regulation 7(2), any person who lights or
uses any fire in any country park or special area in contravention of such
prohibition, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $5000
and to imprisonment for 1 year.

(3A) Any person who contravenes regulation 13A(4) or (5) commits an offence
and is liable to a fine of $2000. (L.N. 63 of 2005)

(4) If a person who is required under regulation 15(1) to produce a permit
fails, without reasonable excuse, to do so, that person commits an offence and
is liable to a fine of $1000.