Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 60

Offences

(Past version on 10/03/2006).
(Past version on 30/06/2005).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes any of the provisions
of, or any requirement under, regulation 7(2) or (3), 8, 12M(1), 17(1), (2) or
(6), 18, 19(1), (3), (4) or (6), 20(1) or (3), 22(1) or (1A), 36(2), 41, 44(3)
or (4), 48, 49(5), 50(3), 50A(4), 57(2) or 59(3) or (5) or any condition
imposed under regulation 40(4), 51(3), 52(1), 53(3) or (3A) or 54 commits an
offence and is liable to a fine of $2000. (L.N. 262 of 1984; L.N. 247 of 1991;
L.N. 277 of 1992; L.N. 67 of 2005; 25 of 2005 s. 24; L.N. 52 of 2007)

(2) Any person who obstructs any police officer or other officer authorized by
the Commissioner in the exercise of any power conferred by regulation 12P,
22(2) or 57(3) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2000 and to
imprisonment for 3 months. (25 of 2005 s. 24)

(3) Subject to subregulation (7), if any vehicle is upon or used on any road
in contravention of regulation 23(1), 25 or 29(1), (2) or (4), or is upon or
used on any private road in contravention of section 23A(1), the registered
owner and the driver of the vehicle at the time of such contravention each
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2000 and to imprisonment for 3
months and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction under regulation
29(1), (2) or (4) to a fine of $5000 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (L.N.
21 of 1989)

(4) A holder of an international circulation permit who without reasonable
excuse contravenes regulation 31A(1) or (2), 33(1), (2), or (4) or 34(3)
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2000. (L.N. 52 of 2007)

(5) If any vehicle is upon or used on any road in contravention of regulation
45, 46 or 47 the holder of the trade licence and the driver of the vehicle at
the time of such contravention each commits an offence and is liable to a fine
of $2000.

(6) Any person who without lawful authority alters, defaces or mutilates or
adds anything to any registration document or card, certificate of allocation,
vehicle licence or any licence or permit issued under these regulations or
displays on any vehicle any such vehicle  licence, licence or permit which has
been so altered, defaced, mutilated or added to or has in his possession,
without reasonable excuse, any such registration document or card,
certificate of allocation, vehicle licence, licence or permit which has been
so altered, defaced, mutilated or added to commits an offence and is liable to
a fine of $3000 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (25 of 2005 s. 24)

(7) It shall be a defence to a charge alleging a contravention of regulation
25 for the defendant to show that the vehicle to which the charge relates was,
at the time of that contravention, parked on a private road. (L.N. 21 of 1989)