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Preserva- tion of evidence

of serious accidenta.

(3) If in any case owing to the presence of a vehicle on a road an accident occurs whereby damage or injury is caused to any person, vehicle, animal or thing, the driver of such vehicle shall render such assistance as may be reasonably required by any police officer or in the absence of any police officer such assistance as it may reasonably be in the power of such driver to render.

(4) In this section "animal" means any horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep, pig, goat, cat or dog.

(5) Any person who contravenes any provision of this section shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.

BB. If owing to the presence of a vehicle on a road an accident occurs in consequence of which any person is killed or seriously injured or serious damage is caused to any vehicle or thing, no person, except under the authority of a police officer, shall move or otherwise interfere with any vehicle involved in the accident or any part of such vehicle or do any other act so as to destroy or alter any evidence of the accident:

Provided that-

(i) a vehicle or any part thereof may be moved so far as may be necessary to extricate persons or animals involved, to remove mails, to prevent fire or to prevent damage or obstruc- tion to the public; and

(ii) goods or passengers' baggage may be removed from a vehicle under the supervision of a police officer; and

(iii) this section shall not apply where it is urgent- ly necessary to remove any seriously injured person to hospital and no suitable means of conveyance other than a vehicle involved in the accident is available.".

1. Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amend- addition in subsection (1) thereof after the figure "6" of the follow- ment of ing-

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"or subsection (4) of section 34 or subsection (4) or subsection (5) of section 3B".

section 10.

The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after Addition

of new section 12 of the following new section—

section 12A

"Forgery. etc. of licences, etc. [20 & 21 Geo. 5.

112] (Cap. 209).

12A. (1) Any person who- (a) forges within the meaning of the Forgery Ordinance, or alters or uses or lends to or allows to be used by any other person any licence, permit, certificate or other document issued under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made thereunder; or (6) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a licence, permit, certificate or other document as to be calculated to deceive,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining the issue of any driving licence, vehicle licence, permit, certificate or other document, under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made thereunder, to himself or to any other person or a variation of any such document, or for the purpose of preventing the issue or variation of any such document or preventing the imposition of any addition or limitation in relation to any such document, knowingly makes any false statement, shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person who is guilty of any offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of July, 1956.

(Secretariat 49/3231/55)

Exynold &

Deputy Clerk of Councils.