### Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance 《汽車保險(第三者風險)條例》

18. Disclosure of information to the police
Where the driver of a vehicle is alleged to be guilty of an offence under the Ordinance—
(a) the owner of the vehicle shall give such information as he may be required by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police to give as to the identity of the driver, and, if he fails to do so shall be guilty of an offence, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court or magistrate that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver was; and
(b) any other person shall, if required as aforesaid, give any information which it is in his power to give and which may lead to the identification of the driver, and, if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence.
[cf. 1930 c. 43 s. 113 U.K.]

19. Offences and general penalty
(1) Any person on conviction of an offence under this Ordinance shall, unless a penalty is otherwise specifically provided, be liable to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 3 months. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(2) Where a person is, by virtue of any power contained in this Ordinance or in any regulations made thereunder, required to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing and makes default in complying with any such requisition, it shall be lawful for the court or magistrate on conviction, in addition to imposing any penalty, to order such person to comply with such requisition and to annex to any such order any condition as to time or mode of action or otherwise which it may think necessary to enforce compliance therewith.
(3) Every person who makes default in complying with any such order of the court or magistrate may, in the discretion of the court, be ordered to pay by way of a penalty a sum not exceeding $20 for every day during which he is thereafter in default or to be imprisoned, until he has remedied his default:
Provided that any such person shall not for such non-compliance be liable to the payment of any sums amounting in the aggregate to more than $1,000 in addition to any other fine or term of imprisonment to which he may otherwise be liable.

### Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Ordinance 《汽車保險(第三者風險)條例》

20. Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Ordinance, and generally for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into effect, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, may make regulations—
(a) as to the forms to be used for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(b) as to applications for, and the issue of, certificates of insurance and certificates of security and any other documents which may be prescribed, and as to the keeping of records of documents and the furnishing of particulars thereof, or the giving of information with respect thereto, and as to the furnishing of copies of certificates of insurance and of certificates of security in respect of the obtaining or renewal of a licence or the registering of a new owner as owner of a motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374), and the regulations made thereunder; (Amended 22 of 1976 s. 5)
(c) as to the issue of copies of any such certificates or other documents which are lost or destroyed;
(d) as to the custody, production, cancellation, and surrender of any such certificates or other documents;
(da) as to the minimum amount of insurance cover for the purpose of section 6(1)(b); (Added 46 of 1995 s. 6)
(e) for providing that any provisions of this Ordinance shall, in relation to motor vehicles registered outside Hong Kong and brought into Hong Kong for a limited period have effect subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be prescribed; (Amended 46 of 1985 s. 5; 23 of 1998 s. 2)
(f) as to the system of accounts to be kept, and the returns to be furnished, by insurers.
(2) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and that a person guilty of such offence shall be liable to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 7 days. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
[cf. 1930 c. 43 s. 41 U.K.]

### Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Regulations 《汽車保險(第三者風險)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“company” (公司) means an insurer as defined in section 2 of the Ordinance, or a body of persons by whom a security may be given in pursuance of the Ordinance;
“policy” (保險單) means such policy of insurance in respect of third party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles as complies with the requirements of the Ordinance and includes a covering note;
“security” (保證單) means such security in respect of third party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles as complies with the requirements of the Ordinance.

3. Issue of certificates of insurance and security
(1) A company shall issue to every holder of a security or of a policy other than a covering note issued by the company—
(a) in the case of a policy or security relating to a specified vehicle or to specified vehicles, or to such vehicle or vehicles and also to an unspecified vehicle or unspecified vehicles, a certificate of insurance in Form 1, or a certificate of security in Form 4, set out in the Schedule in respect of each specified vehicle; (G.N.A. 78 of 1952)
(b)  in the case of a policy or security not relating to any specified vehicle or vehicles, such number of certificates in Form 2 or 4, set out in the Schedule as may be necessary to enable the requirements of section 16(1) of the Ordinance and of these regulations as to the production of evidence that a motor vehicle is not being driven in contravention of section 4 of the Ordinance to be complied with:

Provided that where a security is intended to cover the use of more than 10 motor vehicles at any one time, the company by whom it was issued may, with the consent of the Governor, issue one certificate only, and, where such consent has been given, the holder of the security may issue duplicate copies of such certificate, duly authenticated by him, up to such number and subject to such conditions as the Governor may determine.(2) Every policy in the form of a covering note issued by a company shall have printed thereon, or on the back thereof, a certificate of insurance in Form 3 set out in the Schedule.

4. Authentication and time of issue of certificates
(1) Every certificate of insurance or certificate of security shall be duly authenticated by or on behalf of the company by whom it is issued.
(2) The certificate aforesaid shall be issued not later than 4 days after the date on which the policy or security is issued or renewed.