Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 37

Visual display units

(Past version on 01/04/2000).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No person shall install or cause to be installed in or on a motor vehicle
and no motor vehicle shall have installed therein or thereon a visual display
unit other than a visual display unit that may be installed under paragraph
(2)- (L.N. 1 of 2000)

   (a)  at any point forward of the driver's seat;

   (b)  so that the screen thereof is partly or wholly, and whether directly
        or in any reflection, visible to the driver whilst in the driving
        seat; or

   (c)  so that the controls thereof, other than the sound volume control and
        the main switch, are within reach of the driver whilst in the driving
        seat.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a visual display unit that is designed to give
the driver-

   (a)  information about the current state of the vehicle or its equipment;

   (b)  the current closed-circuit view of any part of the vehicle or the area
        surrounding the vehicle;

   (c)  information about the current location of the vehicle; or

   (d)  any other information which is only for the purpose of navigating the
        vehicle, may be installed in or on a motor vehicle. (L.N. 1 of 2000)

(3) A visual display unit which enables the display of-

   (a)  any television programme within the meaning of section 2(1) of the
        Broadcasting Ordinance ( Cap 562); or (48 of 2000 s. 44)

   (b)  any stored visual images except for the purposes of paragraph

(2)(d), may not be installed under paragraph (2) at a point forward of the
driver's seat as referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or in the manner referred to
in paragraph (1)(b) or (c). (L.N. 1 of 2000)