### Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance 《九廣鐵路公司條例》

31. By-laws
(1) The Corporation may, under its common seal, make by-laws not inconsistent with this Ordinance or regulations made under section 30 for all or any of the following purposes—
(a) the carriage of passengers and all connected matters including the circumstances in which concessionary fares may be paid and exemptions from the payment of fares;
(aa) regulating vehicles and the conduct of persons in carparks referred to in paragraph (cb) of the definition of railway premises

32. Supplementary provisions relating to by-laws
(1) In any prosecution for an offence against any by-law made under section 31(1)(o), a plan purporting to be certified by the Chief Executive Officer as a plan of a restricted area or as a copy of a plan of a restricted area certified by the Chief Executive Officer, shall be admitted in proceedings before a court on its production without further proof and until the contrary is proved— (Amended 90 of 1990 s. 5; 31 of 2001 s. 6)
(a) the court before which such certified plan or copy is produced shall presume that the signature to the plan or copy is genuine and that the Chief Executive Officer was duly appointed when he certified it; (Amended 90 of 1990 s. 5; 31 of 2001 s. 6)
(b) shall be evidence of the area and boundaries of any part or parts of the railway delineated or described therein as a restricted area.
(2) Any by-law made under section 31 which provides that hawking on railway premises is an offence may also provide that all or any part of sections 86, 86A, 86C and 86D of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) shall apply, with such modifications as may be specified in the by-law, as if such offence were a hawker offence within the meaning of section 83 of that Ordinance. (Amended 10 of 1986 s. 32(1))

33. Penalties
Any regulations made under section 30 or by-laws made under section 31 may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine at level 3 and imprisonment for 2 years. 
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

### Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance 《九廣鐵路公司條例》

34. Duty to comply with directions etc.
(1) It shall be the duty of the Corporation to comply with any direction given to it or requirement made by the Chief Executive in Council or Financial Secretary under this Ordinance.
(2) Any direction given or requirement made by the Chief Executive in Council or Financial Secretary under this Ordinance shall be in writing.
(Amended L.N. 362 of 1997; 62 of 1999 s. 3; L.N. 144 of 2022)

34A. Corporation to have control over the laying of cables, pipes, etc. in the wayleave area
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Ordinance, no person shall lay any electric power supply cable, telephone cable or other cable used for communication, water pipe line, gas pipe line or other cable or pipe line within the area in respect of which a wayleave is vested in the Corporation without the consent of the Corporation or otherwise than in accordance with such conditions, being conditions reasonable in the circumstances, as the Corporation may think fit to impose: (Amended 13 of 1998 s. 13)
Provided that no charge shall be made for granting such consent.
(2) Where a person seeking the consent of the Corporation under subsection (1) to lay any cable or pipe line is carrying on an undertaking for the supply of electricity, gas or telephonic communication services to the public, such consent shall not unreasonably be withheld.
(3) Nothing in this section shall derogate from the right of the Government to use the area referred to in subsection (1) in any manner not inconsistent with the rights granted to the Corporation by this Ordinance.
(Added 56 of 1986 s. 16)

34B. Application of section 11 of the Tramway Ordinance 

(Suspended from 2 December 2007—see section 40)
Section 11 of the Tramway Ordinance (Cap. 107) shall apply to the North-west Railway and, for the purposes of such application, references in that section to “the company” shall be construed as references to the Corporation and references to “the tramway” as references to that railway.
(Added 56 of 1986 s. 16)

### Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance 《九廣鐵路公司條例》

35. Certain laws not to apply
(1) The Building Authority may—
(a) having regard to the exceptional nature of the building or other works connected with the construction of a railway, the extension of the railways or the operation of the railways; and (Replaced 56 of 1986 s. 17)
(b) on such conditions as he may specify, either generally or in any particular case,
exempt from such of the provisions of the Buildings Ordinance (Cap. 123) as he thinks fit such of those works as he may specify, but save as aforesaid the Buildings Ordinance (Cap. 123) shall apply to any building or other works carried out by or on behalf of the Corporation.
(2) (Repealed 75 of 1988 s. 40)(3) Part IX of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) shall not apply to any advertisements erected in accordance with paragraph 3(c) of the Fifth Schedule and any conditions imposed under that paragraph. (Added 56 of 1986 s. 17)

35A. Public Bus Services Ordinance not to apply to Corporation’s bus services within the North-west Transit Service Area 

(Suspended from 2 December 2007—see section 40)
The Public Bus Services Ordinance (Cap. 230) shall not apply to any bus service operated by or on behalf of the Corporation within the North-west Transit Service Area with the following exceptions—
(a) sections 16(1)(b), 18, 19, 20 and 21;
(b) sections 2 and 3 to the extent that they apply to the provisions specified in paragraph (a),
and for the purposes of those provisions the Corporation shall be deemed to be a grantee within the meaning of that Ordinance.
(Added 56 of 1986 s. 18)

36. Avoidance of doubt
For the avoidance of doubt and without prejudice to any other Ordinance it is declared that the railway premises are a public place for the purpose of the Public Order Ordinance (Cap. 245).