Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TUNNELS (GOVERNMENT) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12

Tolls

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART III

TOLLS, REMOVAL FEES, PERMITS AND EXEMPTIONS

(1) The appropriate toll specified in the Second Schedule in respect of the
use of a tunnel therein specified by any vehicle shall be payable by the
driver of such vehicle at a toll booth provided by the Authority or an
operator for that purpose. (L.N. 251 of 1991)

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall drive a vehicle past-

   (a)  a toll booth other than an autotoll booth unless-

        (i)    he stops and pays to the toll collector on duty at the booth
               the appropriate toll for the vehicle;

        (ii)   he stops and tenders to the toll collector on duty at the booth
               such toll ticket as may be approved by the Authority
               appropriate to the vehicle; or

        (iii)  he stops and tenders to the toll collector on duty at the booth
               such approval in writing as may be provided by the Authority
               indicating that the vehicle is allowed passage through a tunnel
               without payment of the appropriate toll; or

   (b)  an autotoll booth unless the appropriate toll for the vehicle is paid
        by debiting the account of the holder of an electronic toll pass
        opened with the Authority or the operator of the tunnel under
        regulation 12A. (L.N. 300 of 1993)

(3) Paragraph (2)(a) shall not apply to a vehicle of the kind specified in
regulation 14(1) or (1A), but the toll payable in respect of such a vehicle
may be paid in such manner as the Authority may direct. (L.N. 300 of 1993; 49
of 1999 s. 9)