Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 45

General conduct of driver

(1) The driver of a public bus, public light bus or taxi, when acting as such-

   (a)  shall behave in a civil and orderly manner;

   (b)  shall be clean and tidy in his person and adequately clothed;

   (c)  shall not smoke in or on the vehicle when it has passengers on board;

   (d)  shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of
        passengers in or on or entering or alighting from the vehicle;

   (e)  shall ensure that all exits of the vehicle, including emergency exits,
        are free from obstruction and, when passengers are on board, are not
        locked;

   (f)  shall, if requested by any police officer or traffic warden in uniform
        or any person authorized by the Commissioner, give particulars of his
        name and address and the name and address of the licensee or owner by
        whom he is employed;

   (g)  shall not, at any reasonable time, obstruct, or neglect to give all
        reasonable information and assistance to, any person having authority
        to examine the vehicle;

   (h)  shall not cause the vehicle to remain stationary on a road longer than
        is necessary to pick up or set down passengers except at a stand or
        place where such vehicles are permitted to stop for a longer time than
        is necessary for that purpose;

   (i)  shall not unreasonably delay the journey; and

   (j)  shall not congregate or assemble with other drivers to the annoyance
        of members of the public.

(2) A driver, when in charge of a taxi, shall-

   (a)  not deceive or refuse to inform a passenger or intending passenger as
        to the proper fare and route to any place;

   (b)  at all times when the taxi is available for hire or is hired, carry,
        for the purpose of giving change, not less than-

        (i)    $90 in notes of a denomination of $10 or in coins of a
               denomination of $2 or more; and

        (ii)   $10 in coins of a denomination of $1 or less;

   (c)  while the taxi is available for hire, not loiter or stop elsewhere
        than at a taxi stand except through accident or unavoidable cause;

   (d)  while conveying passengers to or picking up passengers from any place
        of public amusement or assembly, draw up in order of arrival as near
        to the door or entrance thereto as is reasonably practicable and,
        subject to any direction by a police officer or traffic warden in
        uniform, drive the taxi away immediately after the passengers have
        alighted from or boarded the taxi in such manner as to cause the
        minimum of obstruction and congestion.