Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12C

Application for personalized registration mark to be considered for deciding whether it shall be determined by Commissioner

(1) The Commissioner shall consider, in accordance with this regulation, an
application for the allocation of a proposed personalized  registration mark
received or (in the case where a selection by lot under regulation 12A(3) is
made) selected by lot for the purpose of deciding whether the application
shall be determined under regulation 12F.

(2) If a proposed personalized registration mark—

   (a)  does not comply with the requirements set out in regulation 12E;

   (b)  is a registration mark which has been assigned or allocated under
        these regulations;

   (c)  is a proposed personalized registration mark for which an application
        has already been made in response to an earlier invitation made under
        regulation 12A(1) and—

        (i)    the application is being determined; or

        (ii)   has been approved as personalized registration mark to be
               offered for sale by auction, under these regulations;

   (d)  is a cancelled personalized registration mark and that
        cancelled personalized registration mark is being offered for
        allocation at a special fee under regulation 12Q(2);

   (e)  has, in its arrangement of the letters and numerals, more than 4
        identical letters or numerals placed together side by side;

   (f)  consists of the letters “VV”, at the beginning, followed by a
        number;

   (g)  consists of the letter “T”, as the suffix, preceded by a number;

   (h)  consists of the letter “T”, at the beginning, followed by a
        number;

   (i)  is identical with a registration mark referred to in regulation
        34(1)(a)(i);

   (j)  is a registration mark reserved under regulation 11;

   (k)  is a personalized registration mark specified in Schedule 5A; or

   (l)  falls within the description in regulation 6(1)(a)(i) or 9(1), the
        application for the allocation of the proposed personalized 
        registration mark shall not be determined under regulation 12F.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, if more than one
application is made by the same person, the Commissioner shall not determine
any of those applications under regulation 12F.

(4) Subject to subregulation (5), where the Commissioner receives more than
one application for the allocation of the same proposed 
personalized registration mark (taking into account only the sequence of
arrangement of the letters and numerals), only one of those applications,
which shall be drawn by lot, shall be, subject to subregulations (2) and

(3), determined under regulation 12F.

(5) Where there is a selection by lot under regulation 12A(3), and more than
one application for the allocation of the same proposed 
personalized registration mark (taking into account only the sequence of
arrangement of the letters and numerals) is so selected, only the one on which
the lot falls first out of those applications shall be, subject to
subregulations (2) and (3), determined under regulation 12F.

(25 of 2005 s. 10)