Hong Kong Regulations

AIRPORT AUTHORITY BYLAW - SECT 51

Impounding and removal of vehicles

(1) A vehicle or thing (as the case may be)-

   (a)  causing obstruction or remaining at rest in such condition or in such
        circumstances as may be likely to cause danger to other persons using
        the designated road, or to interfere with the use of the designated 
        road; or

   (b)  parked in contravention of the Road Traffic Ordinance ( Cap 374) or
        any of its subsidiary legislation as the same are modified by this
        Bylaw, may be impounded or removed, or caused to be impounded or
        removed, by an Authorized Person or a police officer at the risk of
        its owner and may be detained or stored by the Authority.

(2) Where the power of impounding or removing a vehicle under subsection (1)
may be exercised by the persons therein mentioned, any such persons may fix an
approved immobilization device to the vehicle.

(3) The Authority may recover as a civil debt from the owner of such vehicle
or thing such sum in respect of its impounding or removal and storage as may
be fixed from time to time by the Authority, with the approval of the
Commissioner for Transport.

(4) A list of the sums fixed by the Authority under subsection (3) shall be
published by the Authority in such manner as may be approved by the
Commissioner for Transport.

(5) Any vehicle or thing removed under subsection (1) may be detained by
the Authority until it is either-

   (a)  returned to the owner upon his full payment of the sums owing as
        provided under subsection (3); or

   (b)  disposed of in accordance with regulation 12 of the Road Traffic
        (Parking on Private Roads) Regulations ( Cap 374 sub. leg. O),
        modified as set out below-

        (i)	in subregulations (1) and (2)(a)(i), for the words "regulation 
11", there shall be substituted "section 51 of the Airport Authority Bylaw (
Cap 483 sub. leg. A)";

        (ii)   in subregulations (1) and (2)(a), for the words "the owner of
               the private road concerned or an authorized officer in respect
               of that road", there shall be substituted the words "the
               Authority";

        (iii)  in subregulation (1)(a)(ii), for the words "regulation 11(4)",
               there shall be substituted "section 51(3) of the Airport
               Authority Bylaw (Cap 483 sub. leg. A)".

(6) No person shall without the consent of an Authorized Person remove, damage
or interfere in any way with any approved immobilization  device fitted to a
vehicle under subsection (2).

(7) In this section, "approved immobilization device" (認可鎖車器具) has
the same meaning as defined in the Road Traffic (Parking on Private Roads)
Regulations ( Cap 374 sub. leg. O).

"approved immobilization device" (認可鎖車器具)