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Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
18. Failure to comply with traffic signals
Subject to the Ordinance, to regulation 60 and to the direction of any police officer in uniform or traffic warden in uniform no driver of a vehicle on a road shall fail to comply with the indication given by a red or amber light or intermittent red lights, when shown by light signals in accordance with regulation 16 or 17.
PART IV
LIGHTING, SIGNING AND GUARDING OF ROAD WORKS, OBSTRUCTIONS AND EXCAVATIONS
19. Interpretation
In this Part "person responsible" in relation to any road works, obstruction or excavation means the person under whose supervision the road works are carried out or the obstruction or excavation is caused or made.
20. Provision of lights and signs at road works
(1) For the purpose of lighting, signing and guarding road works the person responsible shall-
(a) erect and maintain at the road works during the hours of darkness lanterns of the type prescribed in Schedule 5 and such prescribed traffic signs and prescribed road markings as the Director may require; and
(b) place at the road works such lanterns, traffic signs and road markings in the manner prescribed in Schedule 5.
(2) All traffic signs erected under subregulation (1)-
(a) shall, subject to subregulations (3) and (4), be illuminated by the incorporation of a material approved by the Director capable of reflecting light; and
(b) may be illuminated by any means of lighting approved by him.
(3) Subregulation (2)(a) shall not apply to traffic signs erected in accordance with Schedule 5 where the signs are illuminated to the satisfaction of the Director by internal lighting.
(4) No reflecting material shall be applied to any black part of a traffic sign erected under subregulation (1).
(5) All signs erected under subregulation (1) shall have marked on them in English and Chinese, in a manner approved by the Director, the name of the person responsible.