### Specification of Safety Glass Notice 《指明使用安全玻璃公告》

1. Citation
This notice may be cited as the Specification of Safety Glass Notice.

2. Interpretation
In this notice—
“hard safety plastic” (硬質安全塑膠) means inflexible safety plastic of not less than 6 mm in thickness;
“safety plastic” (安全塑膠) means flexible or hard safety glazing material predominantly synthetic organic in character, including laminated products and single sheets, so constructed, treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by objects from exterior sources or by the safety glazing material when it may be cracked or broken;
“wired safety glass” (鐵絲網安全玻璃) means a single sheet of glass with a layer of meshed wire completely imbedded in the glass but not necessarily in the centre of the sheet.

3. Approval of glass or transparent materials
The types of glass and transparent material specified in paragraph 4 are approved for the purposes of regulation 28(1)(a).

4. Specification of safety glass
(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) the glass or transparent material used in all windscreens, windows and partitions of a motor vehicle shall be safety glass or safety glazing that—
(a) complies with British Standard Specification BS 857 with amendments up to AMD 3548 dated 15 February 1981;
(b) complies with British Standard Specification BS 5282;
(c) complies with British Standard Specification BS AU 178;
(d) complies with Economic Commission of Europe Regulation ECE 43; or
(e) is hard safety plastic.
(2) The glass or transparent material used in the rear cabin window of a motor vehicle used to carry dangerous goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap. 295) shall be wired safety glass.
(3) The glass or transparent material used in the rear window in any removable canopy to the driver or passenger accommodation of a motor vehicle may be safety plastic.

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Road Traffic Ordinance.

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

2A. AV falling within classes of vehicle specified in Schedule 1
If, but for this section, an AV would not fall within a class of vehicle specified in Schedule 1 solely because the AV is not constructed, adapted or intended for the carriage of a driver, then for the purposes of this Ordinance and any other Ordinances, the AV is taken to be a vehicle of that class.
(Added 11 of 2023 s. 4)

3. Application to State
(1) Subject to section 4A, Parts 5, 7, 8, 12, 13 (except section 121) and 14 (except section 131) shall apply to vehicles and persons in the public service of the State and for the purpose of proceedings for an offence in connection with any such vehicle against any person other than the driver of the vehicle the person nominated in that behalf by the department in whose service the vehicle is used shall be deemed to be the person actually responsible unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the court or magistrate that only the driver was responsible. [cf. 1930 c. 43 s. 121(2) U.K.]
(2) Any regulations made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12A, 121 and 131 may be expressed to apply to vehicles and persons in the public service of the State in the same manner as Parts 5, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 14 are applied by subsection (1) subject to such modifications and exceptions as may be specified in the regulations.
(Amended 31 of 1986 s. 3; 80 of 1988 s. 4; 71 of 1991 s. 3; 3 of 2002 s. 15; E.R. 2 of 2012)

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

4. Application of Ordinance to trams
(1) Sections 36, 36A, 37, 38, 39, 39A, 39B, 39C, 39D, 39E, 39J, 39K, 39L, 39M, 39N, 39O, 39P, 39Q, 39R, 39S, 39U, 40, 41, 56, 57, 60, 61, 63 and 64 shall apply to trams and to vehicles of the North-west Railway and sections 56, 57, 63 and 64 shall apply to vehicles of the North-west Railway on any part of the carriageway of the North-west Railway that is not a road in the same way as those sections apply in relation to vehicles on roads. (Amended 39 of 1995 s. 3; 19 of 2010 s. 3; 24 of 2011 s. 4)
(2) Any regulations made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7 and 11 may be expressed to apply to trams or to vehicles of the North-west Railway and may also be expressed to apply in relation to any part of the carriageway of the North-west Railway specified in the regulations, subject to such modifications and exceptions as may be specified in the regulations.
(Amended 56 of 1986 s. 26; 46 of 1987 s. 3)

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

5. International agreements
(1) For the purpose of enabling effect to be given to any international agreement for the time being in force in respect of Hong Kong, the Secretary may make regulations for the following purposes— (Amended L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 6 of 2012 s. 2)
(a) the issue and authentication of permits, certificates or other documents relating to vehicles or the drivers of vehicles which may be required for the purposes of travel outside Hong Kong by persons resident in Hong Kong; and
(b) the use of vehicles brought temporarily into Hong Kong by persons resident outside Hong Kong and the use of such vehicles by persons so resident who are temporarily in Hong Kong.
(2) Any regulation made under this section may provide for—
(a) any matter appearing to the Secretary to be incidental to or connected with the matters regulated by any such international agreement; and (Amended L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 6 of 2012 s. 2)
(b) the extension of any privilege conferred by the regulations to persons resident outside Hong Kong who are temporarily in Hong Kong but are not entitled thereto by virtue of any such international agreement, or in respect of vehicles brought temporarily into Hong Kong by such persons, being persons or vehicles satisfying such conditions as may be specified in the regulations.
(c) (Repealed 89 of 1994 s. 3)(3) For the purpose of enabling effect to be given to any international agreement for the time being in force in respect of Hong Kong, the Chief Executive in Council may make regulations for the payment in respect of such documents as are mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of such fees as appear to the Chief Executive in Council to be appropriate having regard to any service performed in connection therewith under the regulations. (Added 89 of 1994 s. 3. Amended 3 of 2002 s. 15)
(Amended 89 of 1994 s. 3)[cf. 1952 c. 39 s. 1 U.K.]