### Amendment of Franchise (Kowloon Motor Bus Company) Order 《專營權(九龍汽車公司)修訂令》

1. Citation
This order may be cited as the Amendment of Franchise (Kowloon Motor Bus Company) Order.

2. Amendment of franchise
The franchise granted to the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited under section 5(1) of the Ordinance shall be amended to the extent set out in paragraph 3.

3. Restriction in Transit Service Area
With effect from the day specified in the second column of the Schedule, no bus on any route referred to in the third column of the Schedule opposite that day shall within the North-west Transit Service Area—
(a) put down any passenger who has boarded the bus within the North-west Transit Service Area; or
(b) take up any passenger whose journey is to terminate within the North-west Transit Service Area,
unless permitted by the Commissioner for Transport with the consent of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, or in an emergency.

### Public Bus Services Regulations 《公共巴士服務規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Public Bus Services Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
authorized person (獲授權的人) means any person employed by a grantee and authorized by it for the purposes of these regulations;
bus stop (巴士站) means an area of road that has been designated as a bus stop under regulation 3; (L.N. 19 of 1989)
gangway (通道), in relation to a bus, means the space provided for obtaining access from any entrance to the passengers’ seats or from any such seat to an exit, other than an emergency exit, but does not include a staircase or any space in front of a seat which is required only for the use of passengers occupying that seat or that row of seats; (L.N. 19 of 1989)
identity card (身分證) means an identity card issued under the Registration of Persons Ordinance (Cap. 177); (L.N. 19 of 1989)
pass (乘車證) means a pass issued by a grantee or by some other person and accepted by a grantee which, subject to these regulations and to any terms or conditions approved by the Commissioner under these regulations, entitles a person to travel (or the travel for a reduced fare) on a bus operated by the grantee under a franchise; (L.N. 19 of 1989)
ticket (車票) means a single journey ticket, monthly ticket, student ticket or any other document (other than a pass) issued by a grantee or by some other person and accepted by a grantee which, subject to these regulations and to any terms or conditions approved by the Commissioner under these regulations, entitles a person to travel on a bus operated by the grantee under a franchise; (L.N. 19 of 1989)
travel document (旅行證件) means a passport furnished with a photograph of the holder, or some other document establishing to the satisfaction of an employee of a grantee, the identity of the holder; (L.N. 19 of 1989)
Vietnamese refugee card (越南難民證) means a card of identity issued by the Director, the Deputy Director or any Assistant Director of Immigration to a Vietnamese refugee. (L.N. 19 of 1989)

### Public Bus Services Regulations 《公共巴士服務規例》

3. Setting aside of bus stops
(1) The Commissioner may designate an area of road to be a bus stop. (L.N. 19 of 1989)
(2) A bus stop may be restricted to—
(a) a specified grantee; or
(b) a specified route.
(3) Subject to regulation 24A, a bus belonging to a specified grantee or on a specified route— (56 of 1986 s. 23)
(a) may stop at a bus stop to pick up or set down passengers;
(b) shall stop at a bus stop to set down a passenger if requested to do so and, if not at full capacity, to pick up an intending passenger when signalled to do so.
(4) The Commissioner may require a grantee to erect and maintain a sign, of a type approved by the Commissioner, at a bus stop, or to remove any sign.
(5) No person shall, without the permission of the Commissioner, erect or cause to be erected any sign on or near any road in such a manner that such sign might reasonably be believed to have been erected in accordance with subregulation (4).
(6) Every sign which, at the commencement* of these regulations, has been lawfully erected on or near a road by a grantee to indicate a bus stop shall be deemed to have been erected in accordance with subregulation (4).
(7) (Repealed L.N. 19 of 1989) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 29 August 1984.

4. Issue of tickets, etc.
(1) A grantee may issue tickets and passes, and accept tickets and passes issued by any other person, upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Commissioner.
(2) A grantee shall ensure that a copy, in English and Chinese characters, of the conditions upon which any ticket or pass is issued, is prominently displayed at all times at every fixed place where such ticket or pass is sold and that, on demand, any person who buys such ticket or pass at any such fixed place may receive, without charge, a copy of such conditions.
(3) Any person who, for the purposes of obtaining any ticket or pass issued under subregulation (1) for himself or any other person, knowingly makes a false statement commits an offence.

5. Fares
A grantee shall ensure that fares are collected—
(a) against the issue of a ticket; or
(b) in such other manner as may be approved by the Commissioner.
(L.N. 19 of 1989)

### Public Bus Services Regulations 《公共巴士服務規例》

6. General duties of grantees
Every grantee shall ensure that—
(a) every bus used by it in connection with its franchise is, at all times when the bus is so used, properly equipped to the satisfaction of the Commissioner with such signs and destination indicators as are referred to in regulation 7; and
(b) every driver, conductor and authorized person employed by it is equipped with such uniform as is referred to in regulation 8.

7. Sign boards and notices on buses
(1) A driver and conductor of a bus when acting as such shall ensure that—
(a) there is displayed on the front and rear of the bus signs, of a design and construction approved by the Commissioner, showing the route number;
(b) there is displayed on the front of the bus a destination indicator, of a design and construction approved by the Commissioner, showing in English and Chinese characters the destination of the bus;
(c) the signs and indicator required to be displayed under paragraphs (a) and (b) are adequately illuminated at all times when, under the provisions of any other enactment, the lights of the bus are required to be illuminated;
(d) a sign board with the words “BUS FULL” and the characters “滿座” displayed thereon, of a size and design approved by the Commissioner, is exhibited on the bus in such manner as to be easily visible by intending passengers, both by day and by night, whenever the maximum number of passengers which the bus is permitted to carry are travelling thereon, but on no other occasion and at no other time;
(e) there is displayed on the bus, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner— (E.R. 4 of 2020)
(i) a statement, in English and Chinese characters, of the maximum number of seated and standing passengers authorized to be carried on the bus;
(ii) the authorized fare for passengers boarding on the section of the route on which the bus is currently operating; and
(f) there are available on the bus written details, in both English and Chinese characters, of the fares and charges authorized to be taken on that route, such details to be available for inspection by passengers on reasonable request being made.
(2) The Commissioner may permit the use of a temporary sign under subregulation (1)(a) and a temporary destination indicator under subregulation (1)(b) for such period and subject to such conditions as he may determine.

8. Uniform
Every driver and conductor of a bus and every authorized person employed by a grantee shall at all times when on duty wear such uniform and carry such badge as shall be approved by the Commissioner.