Hong Kong Regulations

TRAFFIC WARDENS (DISCIPLINE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 16

Payment for loss or damage to property

(1) Where a tribunal has found a traffic warden guilty of a
disciplinary offence, the tribunal may, in addition to or in lieu of any
punishment he is by these regulations empowered to award, order the defaulter
to pay in full or in part-

   (a)  the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment
        or property whatsoever entrusted or supplied to the defaulter in his
        capacity as a traffic warden which has been lost or damaged;

   (b)  the cost of repairing or replacing any Government property lost or
        damaged by him; or

   (c)  the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise, by the Government to
        any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property
        by the defaulter, in each case only if the loss or damage has resulted
        from the defaulter's neglect or fault and the amount ordered to be
        paid does not exceed his salary for one month.

(2) A police officer of or above the rank of superintendent may require a
traffic warden to pay to the Government in full or in part-

   (a)  the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment
        or property whatsoever entrusted to the traffic warden in his capacity
        as a traffic warden and lost or damaged by him;

   (b)  the cost of repairing or replacing any Government property lost or
        damaged by him; or

   (c)  the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise, by the Government to
        any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property
        by the traffic warden, in each case only if the loss or damage has
        resulted from the traffic warden's neglect or fault and the amount
        ordered to be paid does not exceed his salary for one month.

(3) For the purpose of enabling due inquiry to be made as to whether any
traffic warden should be required to pay any amount under paragraph (2),
affording him due opportunity to make representations and enabling any
requirement under that paragraph to be appealed against and reviewed, Part II
shall apply to and in respect of such a requirement as it applies to and in
respect of a finding of guilty of a disciplinary  offence and an award of
punishment.