Hong Kong Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (TRAFFIC CONTROL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12

Bus lane

(Past version on 30/06/1997).



"permitted user" (許可使用者)

"prescribed time" (訂明時間)

(1) Subject to subregulations (2) and (3), during the prescribed  time the
driver of a motor vehicle, other than a permitted user, shall ensure that no
part of his vehicle enters the bus lane bounded by a continuous white line of
the type shown in Figure No. 504 in Schedule 2 unless it is necessary to enter
the bus lane in order-

   (a)  to conform with a direction given-

        (i)    by a traffic sign or road marking; or

        (ii)   by a police officer in uniform or traffic warden in uniform;

   (b)  to avoid colliding with any vehicle, object, obstruction, animal or
        person; or

   (c)  to make an exit from or entry to a part of the carriageway other than
        the bus lane: Provided that the bus lane shall be crossed as near as
        practicable at an angle of 90 degrees from the edge of the
        carriageway.

(2) Where a bus lane is bounded by a broken line of the type shown in Figure
No. 518 in Schedule 2 (hereinafter in this regulation called the broken line)
the driver of a motor vehicle may cross the broken line to make a turn into or
out of any road, premises or place adjacent to the carriageway.

(3) Without prejudice to regulation 60, this regulation shall not apply to a
vehicle in respect of which a bus lane permit for the bus lane is issued and
is valid in accordance with the Road Traffic (Registration 
and Licensing of Vehicles) Regulations ( Cap 374 sub. leg.).

(4) In this regulation-

"permitted user" (許可使用者) means that class of motor vehicle indicated
on a sign, of the type shown in Figure No. 118, 119 or 164 in Schedule 1
erected at the commencement of a bus lane, as being permitted to enter that
bus lane; (L.N. 86 of 2001)

"prescribed time" (訂明時間) means that period of time indicated on a sign
of the type shown in Figure No. 406 in Schedule 1.