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A special meter sealing exercise for urban and New Territories taxis in connection with the taxi fare increase will be conducted from February 5.
Taxi owners who have made appointments for this special exercise earlier through taxi associations should attend the designated vehicle examination centres on time. Those who have not yet submitted their applications should make appointments through their respective taxi associations as soon as possible.
Taxi owners who are not members of a taxi association may make telephone appointments for testing and rescaling of taxi meters for this special scaling exercise. Telephone bookings will be accepted after February 5 between 2 pm and 4 pm on weekdays. The telephone numbers are -
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for urban taxis: 2759 7573
for New Territories taxis: 2426 9085.
Those who had already made appointments through their respective taxi associations should not make any telephone appointment, the spokesman said.
Taxi owners are reminded that this special arrangement is for meter testing and sealing only. Those who have made appointments for annual inspections and bi- annual meter checking from February 5 to April 30 should stick to their original bookings and should not make any appointment under this special exercise.
The spokesman said taxi meters should be recalibrated before they were tested and sealed by staff of the Transport Department.
"Wherever possible, the existing gearbox seal underneath the taxi should be left intact when the taxi is presented for the special sealing arrangement," he said.
"Taxi owners are requested to arrange for early recalibration of taxi meters so as to reduce unnecessary complaints arising from any possible misunderstanding of the passengers on the use of fare conversion tables," the spokesman added.
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