### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

3. Designation of restricted roads
The Authority may, where under section 25A of the Ordinance it has designated any road or length of a road to be a restricted road, erect or place, with the approval of the Commissioner for Transport and the Director of Highways, at every point of entry to the restricted road a sign in accordance with diagram 1.
(L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 418 of 1984; L.N. 127 of 1986)

4. Road barriers at restricted roads
The Authority may, for the purpose of restricting the entry of vehicles to a restricted road under section 25A(2) of the Ordinance, erect, with the approval of the Commissioner for Transport and the Director of Highways, at every point of entry to the restricted road a barrier across the road or other suitable device of such type as the Authority thinks fit.
(L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 127 of 1986)

5. Designation of parking places
(1) The Authority may designate any place on a restricted road as a parking place and may appropriate the use of such parking place for any particular period or allocate such parking place for the use of vehicles of any description or of any particular type or class or for the use of any person or persons of any particular class.
(2) The Authority may indicate the designation of a parking place by means of road markings in accordance with diagram 14, 15 or 16.
(3) The Authority may, with the approval of the Commissioner for Transport and the Director of Highways, by the erection or placing of the appropriate signs in accordance with the diagrams in the Schedule indicate that a parking space within a parking place may be used— (L.N. 127 of 1986)
(a) for vehicles of a particular description, type or class, or by any person or persons of a particular class;
(b) at particular times; or
(c) on particular days.
(4) The Authority may amend, suspend or cancel any designation under paragraph (1)—
(a) by covering any sign;
(b) by the erection or placing of the sign in accordance with diagram 8; or
(c) by the removal of any sign.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

6. Erection or placing of signs
(1) When any signs are erected or placed under by-law 5(3), they shall be erected or placed in such manner that they are clearly visible to traffic using the restricted road or such part thereof as is restricted by such signs.
(2) Any sign erected or placed under these by-laws may be of such material as will cause it to reflect light or may be illuminated.
(3) The Authority may display on or at any sign erected or placed under these by-laws the Housing Authority logo in accordance with diagram 20.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

7. Significance of signs and road markings
The meaning of every sign and road marking erected or placed under these by-laws shall be in accordance with the signs and road markings and the notes relating thereto specified in the Schedule.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

8. Offences in relation to parking
(1) No person shall park any vehicle in any place on a restricted road—
(a) other than in a parking place;
(b) in contravention of any sign or road marking erected or placed at the parking place;
(c) in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger to other persons using the road; or
(d) in the case of a trailer, unless the trailer is accompanied by and attached to a motor vehicle capable of drawing the trailer.
(2) Any person who parks a vehicle in a parking place shall, except where a valid parking place pass is displayed in accordance with by-law 11(2), pay such parking fee for the use of the parking place as may be fixed by the Authority.
(3) (Repealed L.N. 418 of 1984)(4) No person shall park any vehicle in a parking place in such a manner that the vehicle unnecessarily projects over any line which divides the space in which the vehicle is parked from any other space.
(5) No person shall park any vehicle in any parking place the designation of which is suspended or cancelled under by-law 5(4).
(5A) The registered owner of a vehicle which is used in connexion with an alleged offence under this by-law shall, within 21 days of a request by an authorized officer, supply all the information within the knowledge of the registered owner which will enable the Authority to ascertain the name and address of the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence. (L.N. 147 of 1982)
(5B) The driver of a vehicle on a restricted road or in a parking place shall, when so requested, give his name and address to any authorized officer. (L.N. 147 of 1982)
(6) Any person who contravenes this by-law commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 3 of 2021)
(7) Paragraphs (1), (4) and (5) shall not apply to a motor vehicle. (L.N. 159 of 1994)
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

9. Exemption from restrictions
Nothing in by-law 8 shall apply—
(a) so as to restrict the use of any vehicle in connexion with any building operation, demolition, or excavation, the removal of any obstruction to traffic, the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of any road or the erection, alteration or repair in or near to any restricted road of any sewer or any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or of any telephone or rediffusion wires, cables, parts or supports if the vehicle cannot be conveniently put to such use under the restriction;
(b) to fire services vehicles, ambulances, police vehicles, vehicles used for the conveyance of public mail, or vehicles used by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army when any such vehicles are being used in the performance of their function in any restricted road; (2 of 2012 s. 3)
(c) (Repealed L.N. 418 of 1984)(d) to anything done with the permission of the Authority or an authorized officer.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

10. Issue of parking place passes
(1) The Authority may issue to any person, who applies for a parking place pass for the parking of a vehicle on a restricted road and pays the appropriate parking place pass fee fixed by the Authority, a parking place pass in respect of the vehicle.
(2) A parking place pass issued under paragraph (1) shall be in a form approved by the Authority and there shall be entered in the parking place pass—
(a) the registration mark of the vehicle in respect of which it is valid;
(b) the name of the estate and the restricted road in respect of which it is valid;
(c) the period for which it is valid; and
(d) such other particulars as the Authority may think fit.
(3) The Authority may issue a parking place pass for such period as it may determine.
(4) The issue of a parking place pass in respect of a vehicle shall not provide any guarantee that a parking place for the parking of the vehicle shall be available on the restricted road in respect of which the parking place pass is valid.

11. Use of parking place passes
(1) Subject to section 25A(3) of the Ordinance and by-law 12, a vehicle in respect of which a parking place pass is issued may be parked in a parking place on the restricted road in respect of which the pass is valid at any time during the currency of the pass.
(2) A parking place pass shall be displayed on the left-hand side of the windscreen of the vehicle in respect of which it is issued.

12. Maximum period for parking
No vehicle shall be parked in a parking place for a period exceeding 24 hours unless such parking is authorized by the Authority or an authorized officer.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)