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

18. Safe keeping of property
(1) A grantee shall retain in safe keeping any property which comes into its possession in accordance with regulation 16 until claimed by the owner thereof or disposed of in accordance with these regulations.
(2) A grantee shall return forthwith all official documents, including licences, passports and identity cards, to the appropriate Government Department or other body or person by whom they were issued.
(3) Where the name and address of the owner of any property, other than a document referred to in subregulation (2) are readily ascertainable, the grantee shall forthwith notify him that the property is in its possession and may be claimed in accordance with these regulations.
(4) If any property appears to the grantee to be of a perishable or offensive nature and is not claimed and proved to its satisfaction to belong to a claimant within 8 hours of the time of finding or if it becomes objectionable, the grantee may thereupon destroy or otherwise dispose of the property as it thinks fit and, if the property is sold, the grantee shall reward the conductor or driver in the manner provided in regulation 19.

19. Unclaimed property
If any property retained by a grantee is not proved to its satisfaction to belong to a claimant within 3 months of the date when the property was handed over to it by a conductor or driver, the property shall thereupon vest in the grantee and the grantee may either deliver the property to the conductor or driver or without delay sell the property and in respect of any article which realizes a sum in excess of $2 shall award to the conductor or driver one-fifth, up to an amount not exceeding $25, of the proceeds of such sale, and in computing the amount due to the conductor or driver any part of 10 cents shall be reckoned as 10 cents:
Provided that any document not returned to the owner or other appropriate person under regulation 18(3) and which has not been claimed by the person entitled to its return before the expiration of such period of 3 months shall not be delivered to the conductor or driver or sold but shall be dealt with in such manner as the grantee may deem appropriate.

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

20. Claimed property
(1) If any property retained by a grantee under regulation 18 is claimed within 3 months of the date on which it was handed over to the grantee by the conductor or driver and the claimant proves to the satisfaction of the grantee that it belongs to him, it shall thereupon be delivered to the claimant upon his signing a receipt therefor and upon payment by him to the grantee of a sum not exceeding 50 cents and, in the case of property of a value exceeding $2, an additional sum, not exceeding $25, of one-fifth of the value of the property, which additional sum shall be awarded by the grantee to the conductor or driver, and in computing the amount due to the conductor or driver any proportion of 10 cents shall be reckoned as 10 cents.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the value of any property shall be deemed to be such sum as may be agreed between the claimant and the grantee or, failing agreement, such sum as may be fixed by an auctioneer licensed under the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance (Cap. 114), any fee payable to such auctioneer being paid by the claimant.

21. Person entitled to award
The conductor or driver or other person into whose possession any property first came shall alone be entitled to an award under regulations 18, 19 and 20.

22. Costs of packing and carriage
Where any property is forwarded to a claimant, all costs of packing and carriage reasonably incurred shall be paid to the grantee by the claimant.

23. Liability of grantee, etc.
(1) A grantee shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury to lost property if all due diligence and care has been exercised by the grantee and by its employees in respect thereof.
(2) Where lost property is returned by a conductor or driver in accordance with regulation 16(b) or is returned by a grantee in accordance with regulation 20(1), in good faith to a claimant, the conductor, driver or grantee shall not be liable to any further claim in respect of such property.

24. Examination of property
(1) Where any property is contained in a package, bag or other receptacle, the grantee may cause such package, bag or receptacle to be opened and the contents examined if the grantee considers it necessary for the purposes of identifying and tracing the owner thereof or of ascertaining the nature of its contents.
(2) Where any property is claimed by any person, the grantee may require the claimant to open any receptacle in which it may be contained and to submit the contents to examination for the purpose of establishing his claim to ownership or of ascertaining the value of the property.

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

24A. Restrictions on putting down and taking up of passengers
During the period referred to in section 5(9) of the Ordinance every grantee shall within the North-west Transit Service Area ensure that no bus used by it in connection with its franchise, otherwise than as may be permitted by its franchise, or as may be permitted by the Commissioner with the consent of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, or in an emergency—
(a) puts down any passenger who has boarded the bus within the North-west Transit Service Area; or
(b) takes up any passenger whose journey is to terminate within the North-west Transit Service Area.
(56 of 1986 s. 23)

24B. Bus stop
In addition to any powers which the Commissioner may exercise under regulation 3 he may, during the period referred to in section 5(9) of the Ordinance, within the North-west Transit Service Area restrict a bus stop under that regulation so that it may only be used, or may not be used, by passengers who are travelling to, or arriving from, a point outside the North-west Transit Service Area.
(56 of 1986 s. 23)

25. Offences and penalties
(1) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes any requirement made under regulation 3(4) or any of the provisions of regulation 3(3)(b), 3(5), 4(2), 5, 6, 7(1), 8, 9, 10(1), 10(2)(a), (b) or (c), 11(a), (b), (c), (e) or (f), 12(a), (b) or (c), 13A(2), 13B, 15, 16, 17 or 18 commits an offence.
(2) Any person who commits an offence under regulation 4(3) or subregulation (1) is liable to a fine at level 1.
(3) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 11(d), 11A, 12(d) or (e), 13A(1) or 14A commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(4) Any grantee who fails to ensure compliance with regulation 24A commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1.
(L.N. 19 of 1989; E.R. 4 of 2020)

### Traffic Accident Victims (Assistance Fund) Ordinance 《交通意外傷亡者(援助基金)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Traffic Accident Victims (Assistance Fund) Ordinance.