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Ord. No. 80/88

ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)

(c) use immobilisation devices, approved by the Commissioner, for the

purposes of paragraph (b);

(d) deliver into the custody of the Commissioner of Police, in such circumstances as are specified in the regulations, vehicles detained under the regulations where any charge referred to in paragraph (b) incurred in respect of any such vehicle is not paid within such period as is specified in the regulations;

(e) require a person who has erected or placed on the road a sign or road marking in contravention of the regulations to remove it;

(f) recover as a civil debt from a person referred to in paragraph (e) the cost of removing a sign or road marking referred to in that paragraph;

(g) delegate to any person any powers conferred on them under the

regulations; and

(h) appoint persons to be authorized officers for the purposes of the

regulations and to issue identity cards to such officers,

and may make any other regulations necessary or convenient to be made for the purposes of any of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h) inclusive, including regulations-

(i) providing for vehicles referred to in paragraph (d) delivered into the custody of the Commissioner of Police to become the property of the Crown free from the rights of any person and for empowering the Commissioner of Police to dispose of such vehicles by sale or otherwise as he thinks fit;

(ii) for the forfeiture of a sign referred to in paragraph (e); (iii) to make it an offence to obstruct the owner of a private road, or an authorized officer referred to in paragraph (h), in the exercise of any powers, or the discharge of any duties, under the regulations; (iv) providing for the Commissioner to specify particulars to be contained

in identity cards referred to in paragraph (h); and

(v) specifying private roads to which the regulations shall not apply.".

Section added

Consequential Amendments

Traffic Accident Victims (Assistance Fund) Ordinance

12. The Traffic Accident Victims (Assistance Fund) Ordinance (Cap. 229) is amended by adding after section 2—

"Application of Ordinance to private roads

2A. (1) The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to private roads as they apply to roads and, for that purpose, the provisions of any other Ordinance which relate, in any way, to the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply accordingly.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "private road" means a private road within the meaning of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374).”.