Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 31

Application for and issue of international circulation permits

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 3 of 2002 s. 15

(1) Any visitor who brings a motor vehicle into Hong Kong from a place outside
Hong Kong and who desires to obtain an international  circulation permit in
respect of the vehicle, may deliver to the Commissioner an application
therefor in a form specified by the Commissioner, signed by the applicant.

(2) If an applicant for an international circulation permit-

   (a)  satisfies the Commissioner that he is resident outside Hong Kong and
        that the motor vehicle is only temporarily in Hong Kong;

   (b)  produces to the Commissioner a policy of insurance in respect of the
        motor vehicle, valid at the time of production; and

   (c)  satisfies the Commissioner that it is not intended during the currency
        of the international circulation permit to use the motor vehicle in
        Hong Kong for the carriage of passengers or goods for hire or reward
        or, in the case of a goods vehicle, in connection with a trade or
        business, the Commissioner may issue to the applicant free of charge
        an international circulation permit in Form 4 of Schedule 8.

(3) Section 52(1) of the Ordinance shall not apply to a vehicle in respect of
which an international circulation permit is in force.

(4) The following particulars shall be supplied in an application under
subregulation (1)-

   (a)  the full name and home address of the person to whom the
        international circulation permit is to be granted;

   (b)  the date and place of entry into Hong Kong of the motor vehicle in
        question;

   (c)  the make and chassis number of the motor vehicle and such other
        particulars describing the vehicle as the Commissioner may direct;

   (d)  the letters and numbers on the registration plates, if any, of the
        motor vehicle and, if different, of any trailer drawn thereby,
        together with the country or place of registration; (3 of 2002 s. 15)

   (e)  in any case where the motor vehicle is drawing a trailer, the name and
        manufacture of the trailer and its serial or other identification
        number; and

   (f)  the address in Hong Kong of the person to whom the
        international circulation permit is to be granted or, if none, the
        name and address in Hong Kong of some other person through whom he may
        be contacted while in Hong Kong.

(5) An international circulation permit shall not be granted for any period
exceeding 12 months from the date on which the motor vehicle was last brought
into Hong Kong.