Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 26

Driver's accommodation

(1) Every motor vehicle, other than a bus or light bus, shall be so designed
and constructed that the driver-

   (a)  has adequate room and can easily reach and quickly operate the
        controls;

   (b)  while controlling the vehicle can at all times have a full view of the
        road and traffic ahead of the vehicle.

(2) The driver's seat of every motor vehicle, other than a bus or light bus,
shall be secured to the body of the vehicle and shall measure at least 380
millimetres from the backrest to the front edge of the seat and 380
millimetres along the back, except that where the vehicle is fitted with a
continuous seat for a passenger or passengers beside the driver the space
available for passengers under regulation 27 shall be measured from a point
380 millimetres from that part of the seat nearest to the centre of the
steering wheel.

(3) The driver's seat of every motor vehicle, other than a bus or light bus,
shall be capable of being adjusted in relation to the steering wheel of the
vehicle so that it can be moved from 350 millimetres to at least 450
millimetres from the steering wheel measured from the nearest point on the
periphery of the steering wheel to the nearest part of the back of the
driver's seat.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the driver's seat of every vehicle shall be so
placed as to permit the driver to give by hand the usual traffic signals on
the right or off side of the vehicle.

(5) The Commissioner may by permit in writing, subject to such terms and
conditions and for such period as appears to him fit, authorize the use of a
motor vehicle which does not comply with paragraph (4).