Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (PARKING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12D

Offences relating to parking cards and display tickets

(1) Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse-

   (a)  interferes with a parking card so that any information encoded therein
        is erased wholly or in part or the parking card is otherwise altered
        or damaged;

   (b)  uses or attempts to use, for the purpose of operating a card 
        operated parking meter or a pay and display machine, a parking card or
        an approved card which has been interfered with, altered or damaged;
        or

   (c)  fails to return a parking card on being required to do so under
        regulation 12(6)(c), commits an offence and is liable to a fine of
        $500.

(2) Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse-

   (a)  alters, defaces, damages or otherwise interferes with a display ticket
        displayed on a motor vehicle;

   (b)  uses or attempts to use, for indicating payment of a parking fee, a
        display ticket which has been altered, defaced, damaged or otherwise
        interfered with;

   (c)  removes any display ticket displayed on a motor vehicle parked in a
        pay and display parking space; or

   (d)  after having displayed a display ticket on a particular motor vehicle
        for the purpose of indicating payment of a parking fee, uses or
        permits or causes the same display ticket to be used by any other
        person or in respect of any other motor vehicle, commits an offence
        and is liable to a fine of $500. (L.N. 252 of 1991)