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Road Traffic
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59. Provisions applicable to traffic wardens
(1) A traffic warden shall be deemed to be always on duty when required to act as such and shall discharge his functions as such in any and every place in Hong Kong where he may be doing duty.
(2) An identity card shall be issued to every traffic warden and shall be evidence of his appointment.
(3) A traffic warden whilst on duty shall wear the uniform of a traffic warden.
(4) Any person who is not a traffic warden and who-
(a) wears, without the permission of the Commissioner of Police, the uniform of a traffic warden or any dress having the appearance, or bearing any of the distinctive marks, of that uniform;
(b) has in his possession, without the permission of the Commissioner of Police, an identity card issued to a traffic warden under subsection (2),
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(5) Any person who ceases to be a traffic warden, whether in consequence of resignation or dismissal or otherwise, shall thereupon deliver up his uniform and his identity card and any other Government property which may be in his possession.
(6) Save with the consent of the Commissioner of Police, no traffic warden shall be a member of a trade union.
60. Power of police to stop vehicles
A person driving a motor vehicle or rickshaw on a road and a person riding a bicycle or tricycle on a road shall stop the same on being so required by a police officer in uniform, or traffic warden in uniform, and any person who fails to do so commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2,000.
61. Penalty for neglect of traffic directions
[cf. 1972 c. 20 s. 159 U.K.]
Where a police officer in uniform or a traffic warden in uniform is for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic on a road, any person driving any vehicle and any pedestrian who neglects or refuses to obey any direction of the police officer or traffic warden commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $2,000.
61A. Drivers of vehicles of the North-west Railway
to obey police directions in emergency
(1) Where there is an emergency on or in the vicinity of the carriageway of the North-west Railway, a police officer in uniform may give directions to
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