Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 47

Taxi fares

PART VI

FARES AND TAXIMETERS

(1) The scale of fares for the hiring of taxis shall be as specified in
Schedule 5.

(2) No registered owner or driver of a taxi shall charge for the hiring of the
taxi a fare exceeding the appropriate scale of fares specified in Schedule 5.

(3) Light personal hand baggage, that is to say, light suitcases, hat boxes,
attache cases and similar articles may be carried inside the passenger
compartment of the taxi and if so shall be carried free of charge.

(4) Wheelchairs and crutches of a disabled person who is a passenger in a taxi
shall not be regarded as baggage for the purposes of additional fares
specified in Schedule 5. (L.N. 353 of 1988)

(5) (Repealed 34 of 1993 s. 11)
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Note: Under the Road Traffic (Temporary Reduction of New Territories Taxi
Fares) Regulation 2003 (L.N. 146 of 2003) and the Road Traffic (Temporary
Reduction of New Territories Taxi Fares (No. 2) Regulation 2003 (L.N. 147 of
2003), the scale of fares for the hiring of New Territories taxis specified in
Schedule 5 of these regulations is to be reduced within the period from 8 June
2003 to 7 December 2003. These 2 Regulations are subsequently repealed on 12
July 2003 (please see L.N. 187 and 188 of 2003).