### Tsing Ma Control Area Ordinance 《青馬管制區條例》

14. Additional powers of authorized officers
(1) An authorized officer may, if he reasonably suspects that any person within the Area—
(a) has committed a hawker offence within the meaning of section 83 of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132);
(b) has committed a littering offence;
(c) has tampered with any installation, structure, building, facility, utility, equipment, appliance, vehicle or other article in contravention of a regulation made under section 27; or
(d) has entered or remained in any building or other facility without the approval or permission of a public officer the subject of a delegation under section 9, an authorized officer or any other person employed by an operator so authorized, as the case may be, in contravention of a regulation made under section 27,
exercise any of the powers specified in subsection (2).
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an authorized officer may—
(a) require any person to give his name and address and to produce any document in his possession which is or contains evidence of that information;
(b) detain, if necessary by the use of reasonable force, that person until he can be delivered into the custody of a police officer or an officer of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department duly authorized for that purpose. (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7)
(3) For the purposes of this section littering offence (拋棄垃圾的罪行) means an offence against section 4(1), 9 or 9A of the Public Cleansing and Prevention of Nuisances Regulation (Cap. 132 sub. leg. BK). (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7; E.R. 3 of 2022)
(4) Any person who fails to comply with any requirement made under subsection (2)(a) commits an offence.

15. Directions of authorized officers to be obeyed
(1) Any person within the Area shall comply with any order, signal, requirement or instruction given or made by an authorized officer in the course of his duty.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any order, signal, requirement or instruction given or made under subsection (1) commits an offence.

16. Obstruction of authorized officers
Any person who obstructs an authorized officer in the exercise of the powers or the performance of the duties conferred or imposed on him by this Ordinance commits an offence.

### Tsing Ma Control Area Ordinance 《青馬管制區條例》

17. Obligation to give information relating to the driving of vehicles
(1) Without prejudice to section 63 of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374), where the driver of a vehicle is suspected of having committed an offence against this Ordinance, the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap. 374) or the Road Traffic (Driving-offence Points) Ordinance (Cap. 375) within the Area, any person (including both the registered owner of the vehicle and the person suspected of being the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence) shall, on demand made within 6 months after the date of the alleged offence, give to an authorized officer in the manner prescribed in this section the name, address and driving licence number of the person driving the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence and his relationship (if any) to the driver.
(2) A demand under subsection (1) may be made orally or by means of a notice served personally or by post on the person on whom it is made.
(3) Where a demand under subsection (1) is made orally to any person he shall—
(a) if he was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence—
(i) give immediately his name and address; and
(ii) give the number of his driving licence to a specified authorized officer within 21 days after the date of the demand; and
(b) if he was not the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence, give the information required under subsection (1) to a specified authorized officer either orally or in writing within 21 days after the date of the demand.
(4) A notice under subsection (2) shall require the person to whom it is addressed—
(a) to furnish, within 21 days after the date of the notice, to an authorized officer specified therein, a written statement, in such form as may be specified in the notice, giving the name, address and driving licence number of the person driving the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence and his relationship (if any) to the driver; and
(b) to sign that statement.
(5) Subject to subsection (6), any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.
(6) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (5), it shall be a defence to show that the accused person did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, the name or address or driving licence number of the person driving the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence.

### Tsing Ma Control Area Ordinance 《青馬管制區條例》

18. Making false statements and omitting material particulars
(1) A person who makes a false statement in supplying particulars required under section 13, 14 or 17 commits an offence.
(2) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it is a defence for the accused person to show that he did not know and had no reason to believe the statement to be false.
(3) A person who omits any material particular required under section 13, 14 or 17 commits an offence.
(4) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (3), it is a defence for the accused person to show that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, the particular required.
(Replaced 29 of 1999 s. 2)

19. Proof of identity of driver
If, in a prosecution for an offence under this Ordinance, there is produced to the court a statement which—
(a) purports to have been signed by the accused person;
(b) was furnished in accordance with a notice served on him under section 17(2); and
(c) states that the accused person was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence,
the court shall admit the statement as prima facie evidence that the accused person was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence.

### Tsing Ma Control Area Ordinance 《青馬管制區條例》

20. Certificates of image recording and printing devices
(1) A document in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner purporting—
(a) to be a record of the testing of the functioning, inspection or servicing of an image recording device, with or without any associated image printing device, used for the purpose of recording and, where appropriate, reproducing the images of any vehicle which passes through a toll booth without the payment of a toll, or which exceeds a speed limit indicated by a traffic sign, specified in the document; and
(b) to be certified as to such testing, inspection or servicing by a person authorized in this behalf by the Commissioner, (Amended 29 of 1999 s. 2)
shall be admitted as evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings before any court on its production without further proof.
(2) On the production of a document under subsection (1)—
(a) the court before which it is produced shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, presume—
(i) that it was signed at the time and place specified therein by a person authorized by the Commissioner;
(ii) that the facts stated in the document relating to the testing of the functioning, inspection or servicing of the image recording device and the associated image printing device, if any, specified therein are true; and
(iii) that the record of the facts stated in the document was made and compiled at the time stated therein;
(b) the document shall be evidence of all other matters contained therein; and
(c) the recording and print, if any, produced by using the image recording device and the associated image printing device, where appropriate, shall be evidence of all matters contained therein.
(3) Where any document is produced and admitted as evidence under subsection (1), the court may, if it thinks fit, on its own motion or on the application of any party to the proceedings, summon the person who signed the document and examine him as to the subject-matter thereof.