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[Subsidiary] Dealing with vehicles left on railway premises.
(Cap. 374.)
Vehicle drivers to comply with signs etc.
Dangerous driving.
Vehicles prohibited on certain parts of railway premises.
CAP. 270]
Mass Transit Railway By-laws
[1986 Ed.
34. (1) The Corporation may in such manner as it thinks fit remove and detain any motor car or other vehicle in respect of which a contravention of by-law 33 is committed and may charge the owner or driver thereof all costs and expenses occasioned by and incidental to such removal and detention without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of that by-law.
(2) As soon as practicable after a vehicle has been detained under paragraph (1), the Corporation shall serve on the registered owner (as defined in the Road Traffic Ordinance) of the vehicle a notice informing him---
(a) of the detention of the vehicle and the place of detention;
and
(b) that, unless the vehicle is removed from the place of detention on payment of any costs and charges within 14 days after the service of the notice on him, the vehicle shall become the property of the Corporation free from the rights of any person and may be disposed of by the Corporation by sale or otherwise.
(3) If a vehicle is not removed in accordance with the notice served under paragraph (2), the vehicle shall become the property of the Corporation free from the rights of any person and may be disposed of by the Corporation by sale or otherwise as it thinks fit.
(4) If, within 6 months after the day on which a vehicle is sold pursuant to paragraph (3), any person satisfies the Corporation that at the time the vehicle became the property of the Corporation by virtue of that paragraph, he was the owner of the vehicle, the Corporation shall pay to such person the balance of the proceeds of sale after deducting any costs and charges of removal and detention and any reasonable charges incurred by the Corporation in respect of the sale of the vehicle.
(5) A notice under paragraph (2) may be served personally or by post.
(6) For the purpose of this by-law "vehicle" includes the contents of a vehicle and any load carried by a vehicle.
35. Vehicle drivers shall while in or upon any part of the railway premises obey all traffic signs and signals and the reasonable instructions and directions of any official.
36. No person shall drive any motor car or other vehicle through, into or upon any part of the railway premises at a rate of speed or in a manner liable to involve danger to others.
37. No person shall drive any motor car or other vehicle upon or along any part of the railway premises set apart for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
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