Hong Kong Regulations

UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS (LEBANON) REGULATION - SECT 17

Investigation of suspected vehicles

Investigation, etc. of suspected vehicles

(1) If an authorized officer has reason to suspect that a vehicle within the
HKSAR has been, is being or is about to be used in contravention of
section 4(1), he may—

   (a)  either alone or accompanied and assisted by any person acting under
        his authority, board the vehicle and search it and, for that purpose,
        use or authorize the use of reasonable force;

   (b)  request the operator or driver of the vehicle to provide such
        information relating to the vehicle and any article carried on it, and
        produce for his inspection such documents so relating and such
        articles carried on it, as he may specify; and

   (c)  (either there and then or on consideration of any information provided
        or document or article produced in response to a request made under
        paragraph (b)) further request the operator or driver to take the
        vehicle and any article carried on it to such place as is specified by
        an authorized officer, and to cause the vehicle and the article to
        remain in that place until the operator or driver is notified by an
        authorized officer that the vehicle and the article may depart.

(2) A power conferred by this section to request the provision of any
information or the production of any document or article for inspection
includes a power to—

   (a)  specify whether the information should be provided orally or in
        writing and in what form; and

   (b)  specify the time by which and the place in which the information
        should be provided or the document or article should be produced for
        inspection.