### Child Care Services Regulations 《幼兒服務規例》

45O. Fire officers may inspect premises used as a mutual help child care centre
(1) Any officer of the Fire Services Department may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any premises used as a mutual help child care centre.
(2) A person shall not obstruct an officer of the Fire Services Department in the exercise of his powers under paragraph (1).

45P. Reports by fire officers
Officers of the Fire Services Department shall report to the Director on the fire precautions available and may make recommendations as to any further precaution necessary to preclude danger from fire.

45Q. Fire evacuation schemes and exits in mutual help child care centres
The operator of a mutual help child care centre shall—
(a) draw up a practical scheme for the evacuation of the centre in case of fire;
(b) ensure that exists from all rooms in the premises used as the centre are free from obstruction at all times.

45R. Corporal punishment prohibited
No person shall administer corporal punishment to a child in a mutual help child care centre.

45S. Safety and hygiene
(1) The premises, furniture, furnishings, fittings, equipment, toys and materials of a mutual help child care centre to which the children have access in the centre shall be maintained in a safe, clean and sanitary condition.
(2) The operator of the centre shall ensure that the requirements of paragraph (1) are complied with and that, so far as is reasonably practicable, hazards to the safety of the children attending the centre are corrected, repaired, removed or made inaccessible to the children.

45T. Maximum number of children
The number of children in attendance at a mutual help child care centre shall not exceed 14 at any one time.

45U. Overnight accommodation not to be offered
A mutual help child care centre shall not offer or agree to provide overnight accommodation.

45V. Non application of provisions
For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that Parts II, III, IV, V and VA do not apply in relation to a mutual help child care centre.

### Child Care Services Regulations 《幼兒服務規例》

47. Penalties
Any person who is guilty of an offence under these regulations shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(L.N. 317 of 1982; L.N. 269 of 1983; L.N. 272 of 1997)

48. Forms
The forms in the Third Schedule are prescribed for the purposes of the Ordinance.

### Emergency Regulations Ordinance 《緊急情況規例條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Emergency Regulations Ordinance.

### Emergency Regulations Ordinance 《緊急情況規例條例》

3. Penalties
(1) Without prejudice to the powers conferred by section 2, regulations made hereunder may provide for the punishment of any offence (whether such offence is a contravention of the regulations or an offence under any law applicable to Hong Kong) with such penalties and sanctions (including a maximum penalty of mandatory life imprisonment but excluding the penalty of death), and may contain such provisions in relation to forfeiture, disposal and retention of any article connected in any way with such offence and as to revocation or cancellation of any licence, permit, pass or authority issued under the regulations or under any other enactment as to the Chief Executive in Council may appear to be necessary or expedient to secure the enforcement of any regulation or law or to be otherwise in the public interest. (Amended 24 of 1993 s. 24; 71 of 1999 s. 3)
(2) Any person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordinance shall, where no other penalty or punishment is provided by such regulations, be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2018; E.R. 5 of 2021)
(3) (Repealed 24 of 1993 s. 24)(Replaced 40 of 1949 s. 3)

4. Declaratory provision as to effect of an amending Ordinance
For the purpose of removing doubts it is hereby declared that the words in subsection (1) of section 2 “he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest” shall be deemed always to have included power to make such regulations as are mentioned in paragraph (g) of subsection (2) of section 2 and it is further declared that the provisions of subsection (4) of section 2 shall be deemed always to have been incorporated herein.
(40 of 1949 s. 4 incorporated)

### Fixed Penalty (Criminal Proceedings) Ordinance 《定額罰款(刑事訴訟)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Fixed Penalty (Criminal Proceedings) Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Commissioner (署長) means the Commissioner for Transport;
driver (司機) means, in relation to a motor vehicle, any person who is in charge of or assisting in the control of such vehicle;
fixed penalty (定額罰款) means, in relation to a scheduled offence, the fixed penalty set out opposite thereto in the fourth column of the Schedule;
motor vehicle (汽車) means any mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads, but does not include any conveyance for use solely on railways or tramways;
police officer (警務人員) includes a member of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force; (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
proceedings (法律程序) means criminal proceedings in any court in respect of a scheduled offence;
registered address (登記地址) means—
(a) in relation to a registered owner, the address that appears, in respect of any motor vehicle registered in his name, in the register of motor vehicles kept by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations made under the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374); and
(b) in relation to a driver of a motor vehicle, the address that appears in respect of the driver in the record of driving licences kept by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations made under the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374);

registered owner (登記車主) means—
(a) the person in whose name a motor vehicle is registered in accordance with the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374); and (Amended 79 of 1979 s. 2)
(b) in relation to a motor vehicle to which a trade plate or permit issued under regulations made under the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374) is affixed, the person to whom the relevant trade licence or permit is issued under those regulations;

scheduled offence (表列罪行) means an offence the general nature of which is described in the second and third columns of the Schedule.
(2) The short descriptions in the third column of the Schedule indicate for convenience of reference only the general nature of the offences under the provisions specified in the second column of the Schedule.