Hong Kong Regulations

TSING MA CONTROL AREA (GENERAL) REGULATION - SECT 14

Prohibition against vehicles conveying dangerous goods

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not drive or cause or permit to
be driven, or cause to remain, in a tunnel-

   (a)  a vehicle carrying any of the goods referred to in Category 1 of the
        Schedule to the Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) 
        Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg. A);

   (b)  a vehicle carrying any of the goods referred to in Category 2 of the
        Schedule to the Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) 
        Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg. A) unless there is a quantity
        specified in relation to such goods in the second column of the Table
        to regulation 74 of the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations (
        Cap 295 sub. leg. B) and the goods carried do not exceed that
        quantity;

   (c)  without prejudice to paragraph (b), a vehicle carrying any cylinders
        (as defined in regulation 61 of the Dangerous Goods (General) 
        Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg. B) used or to be used for the storage
        of compressed gas referred to in Category 2 of the Schedule to the
        Dangerous  Goods (Application and Exemption) Regulations ( Cap 295
        sub. leg. A), whether or not such cylinders contain any quantity of
        such gas;

   (d)  a vehicle carrying any of the goods referred to in Category 5 of the
        Schedule to the Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) 
        Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg. A) unless there is a quantity
        specified in relation to such goods in the seventh or eighth column of
        the Table to regulation 99 of the
        Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations ( Cap 295 sub. leg. B) and the
        goods carried do not exceed that quantity; or

   (e)  without prejudice to paragraph (d), a vehicle constructed or adapted
        for the conveyance, or a vehicle carrying a container used or to be
        used for the storage, of goods referred to in Category 5 of the
        Schedule to the
        Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) Regulations ( Cap 295 sub.
        leg. A), whether or not such vehicle or container contains any
        quantity of such goods.

(2) Despite subsection (1), nothing in this Regulation prohibits the
conveyance in any tunnel-

   (a)  of fuel which is being carried in the fuel tank of a vehicle for the
        purpose only of the propulsion of the vehicle; (L.N. 488 of 1997)

   (aa) in the case of a vehicle carrying in its fuel tank petroleum spirit
        for the purpose only of its propulsion, by the vehicle of petroleum
        spirit, up to a maximum of 20 litres in securely closed cans, which is
        being carried on the vehicle for such purpose; or (L.N. 488 of 1997)

   (b)  of petroleum spirit which is being carried in a vehicle for the
        purposes of replenishing refueling facilities for vehicles employed on
        duty in the Area.