Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING LICENCES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12A

Learners's driving licences for motor cycles and motor tricycles

(1) A person who wishes to obtain a learner's driving licence in respect of a
motor cycle or a motor tricycle shall deliver to the Commissioner an
application therefor in a form specified by the Commissioner, signed by the
applicant, together with his identity document.

(2) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 10 shall apply to an applicant for a
learner's driving licence under this regulation to the same extent as those
paragraphs apply to an applicant under paragraph (1) of that regulation.

(3) On receipt of an application under paragraph (1) and of the fee prescribed
in the Second Schedule, the Commissioner shall, subject to paragraphs (4) and
(5) and regulations 6, 7 and 9, issue to the applicant a learner's driving
licence in respect of a motor cycle or a motor tricycle, as the case may be,
valid for 12 months from the date of issue thereof.

(4) The Commissioner shall refuse to issue a learner's driving licence in
respect of a motor cycle or a motor tricycle unless the applicant has passed,
within 2 years prior to the date of his application, Parts A and B of the
motor cycle driving test referred to in regulation 12C.

(5) The Commissioner may refuse to issue a learner's driving licence in
respect of a motor cycle or a motor tricycle if the applicant has, during the
12 months immediately preceding his application, been a holder of such a
learner's driving licence and during that period-

   (a)  has not applied under regulation 12B to take Part C of a motor 
        cycle driving test; or

   (b)  having so applied to take Part C of a motor cycle driving test, has
        without reasonable excuse failed to attend for the test on the date
        and at the time and place notified under regulation 12B. (L.N. 273 of
        1989)