Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 27

Passenger seating capacity

(1) No vehicle shall be provided with seating capacity for passengers in
excess of the seating capacity for that class of vehicle specified in the
Third Schedule.

(2) The seating capacity for passengers in a bus or special purpose vehicle
shall be the seating capacity specified in the registration document issued in
respect of that vehicle, and no bus or special purpose vehicle shall be
provided with seating capacity in excess of the seating capacity so specified.

(3) No seating capacity for passengers shall be provided in an invalid
carriage, trailer, tricycle or pedestrian-controlled vehicle.

(4) Subject to regulation 26, every seat in a vehicle shall be secured to the
body of the vehicle and shall, except in the case of a bus or light bus,
measure at least 380 millimetres from the backrest to the front edge of the
seat and 380 millimetres along the back.

(5) In calculating the seating capacity of a vehicle for the purposes of this
regulation-

   (a)  only those seats that are provided in accordance with paragraph

(4) or regulation 73, as the case may be, shall be taken into account; and

   (b)  no account shall be taken of any space on a seat which is less than
        380 millimetres.