### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

57. Preservation of evidence of serious accidents
(1) Subject to subsection (2), 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, any person who without the authority of a police officer moves or otherwise interferes with any vehicle involved in the accident or any part of any such vehicle or does any other act which destroys, alters or conceals any evidence of the accident commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)
(2) In any proceedings against a person in respect of the moving of or interference with a vehicle in contravention of subsection (1), it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that the vehicle was moved or interfered with for the purpose of saving life, extinguishing fire or meeting any other emergency.

58. Appointment of traffic wardens
(1) The Commissioner of Police may appoint such persons as he thinks fit to be traffic wardens or senior traffic wardens.
(2) Traffic wardens shall discharge, in aid of the Hong Kong Police Force, the following functions— (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
(a) the enforcement of the Fixed Penalty (Traffic Contraventions) Ordinance (Cap. 237);
(b) the control and regulation of vehicular traffic and pedestrians, whether on a road or not, and any functions incidental to, or connected with, the control and regulation of such traffic or pedestrians, which are normally undertaken by the Police Force; and
(c) any other functions which may be conferred on them by or under this or any other Ordinance.
(2A) For the purposes of discharging his functions under subsection (2), a traffic warden may require any person whom he reasonably suspects of having committed an offence under this Ordinance to give his name and address. (Added 39 of 1995 s. 8)
(3) Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of discharging his functions under subsection (2), a traffic warden shall have all the powers and duties of a police officer.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), a traffic warden shall not have power—
(a) to arrest or detain a person; or
(b) to search a person.
(5) Traffic wardens shall be subject to the orders and directions of the Commissioner of Police.
(6) A traffic warden shall obey all lawful orders given to him by a police officer of or above the rank of sergeant.

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

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 at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)
(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) (Repealed 39 of 1995 s. 9)

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 at level 1.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)[cf. 1972 c. 20 s. 159 U.K.]

61. Penalty for neglect of traffic directions
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 at level 1.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

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 the driver of any vehicle of the North-west Railway for the purpose of saving or protecting any life or property in imminent danger or clearing any obstruction to the North-west Railway and any such driver shall obey the directions.
(2) Any driver of a vehicle of the North-west Railway who fails to obey a direction of a police officer given under subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)
(Added 46 of 1987 s. 6)

62. Penalty for obstruction
Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, any person who obstructs any police officer or traffic warden or the Commissioner in the exercise of any power conferred under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)

### Road Traffic Ordinance 《道路交通條例》

64. Proof in summary proceedings of identity of driver
If, in any summary proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance, there is produced to the court a statement which—
(a) purports to have been signed by the defendant;
(b) was furnished in accordance with a notice served on him under section 63(2); and
(c) states that the defendant was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence,
the court shall admit the statement as prima facie evidence that the defendant was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence.

65. Provision of weigh-bridges and weighing of motor vehicles etc.
(1) The Commissioner and the Commissioner of Police may maintain and operate weigh-bridges or other machines for weighing vehicles. [cf. 1972 c. 20 s. 200(1) U.K.]
(2) Subject to the provisions of any other enactment, any police officer in uniform or the Commissioner may require the person in charge of any motor vehicle to allow the motor vehicle or any trailer drawn thereby to be weighed, either laden or unladen, and the weight transmitted to the road by any part of the motor vehicle or trailer in contact with the road to be tested, and for that purpose to proceed with the vehicle and such trailer (if any) to a weigh-bridge or other machine for weighing vehicles.
(3) Where a motor vehicle or trailer is weighed under this section and the weight is found to be within the limits authorized by law, a certificate of weight shall be given to the person in charge of the motor vehicle and the certificate so given shall exempt the motor vehicle and the trailer, if any, from being weighed so long as it is during the continuance of the same journey carrying the same load.
(4) Any person in charge of a motor vehicle who fails to comply with any requirement under subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable in the case of a first conviction therefor to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 3 months and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2021)