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

20. Issue of car park passes
(1) The Authority may issue to any person, who applies for a car park pass for the parking of a vehicle in a car park and pays the appropriate car park pass fee fixed by the Authority, a car park pass in respect of the vehicle.
(2) A car park pass issued under paragraph (1) shall be in a form approved by the Authority and there shall be entered in the car park pass—
(a) the registration mark of the vehicle in respect of which it is issued;
(b) the name of the estate and the car park in respect of which it is valid;
(c) the type of parking space in respect of which it is valid;
(d) the period for which it is valid; and
(e) such other particulars as the Authority may think fit.
(3) The Authority may issue a car park pass for such period as it may determine.
(4) The issue of a car park pass in respect of a vehicle shall not provide any guarantee that space for the parking of the vehicle shall be available in the car park in respect of which the car park pass is valid.
(5) The Authority may—
(a) specify the number of car park passes which may be issued under paragraph (1) in respect of any car park;
(b) prohibit the issue of a car park pass in respect of any particular description, type or class of vehicle.

21. Use of car park passes
(1) Subject to by-law 24, a vehicle in respect of which a car park pass is issued may be parked in the car park in respect of which the pass is valid at any time during the currency of the pass if an appropriate parking space is available in the car park for the parking of the vehicle.
(2) The driver of a vehicle (other than a vehicle to which by-law 17 or 18(2) applies) shall not drive the vehicle into, park the vehicle in or remove the vehicle from, any car park unless a valid car park pass issued in respect of the vehicle is displayed on the left-hand side of the windscreen of the vehicle.
(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (2) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (L.N. 418 of 1984; E.R. 3 of 2021)

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

22. Powers of attendants and authorized officers
(1) An attendant or authorized officer may refuse to allow any vehicle to enter into a car park—
(a) in contravention of any limitation imposed under by-law 14 as to the use of the car park;
(b) where by-law 17 applies, if a ticket is not issued in respect of the vehicle; or
(c) where by-law 21 applies, if a valid car park pass is not displayed in the vehicle in accordance with that by-law.
(2) Except where a vehicle is removed under section 25B of the Ordinance, an attendant or authorized officer may refuse to allow any vehicle to leave a car park—
(a) where by-law 17 or 18 applies, if the parking fee incurred in respect of the vehicle is not paid; or
(b) where by-law 21 applies, if a valid car park pass is not displayed in the vehicle in accordance with that by-law.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

23. Register to be kept
(1) An attendant or authorized officer shall maintain at every car park a register in a form specified by the Authority in which he shall record— (L.N. 418 of 1984)
(a) the registration mark of every vehicle which enters the car park;
(b) the time of such entry; and
(c) such other particulars as the Authority may specify,
and at the end of his shift of duty shall sign and date any such record made in the register.
(2) A register maintained under paragraph (1) shall be retained for not less than 2 months after the date of the last record made in the register.

24. Maximum parking period
No vehicle shall be parked in any car park for a period exceeding 7 days unless such parking is authorized by the Authority or an authorized officer.

25. Parking in car parks in unauthorized space an offence
(1) No person shall park any vehicle or cause or permit any vehicle to be parked in a car park other than—
(a) in an appropriate parking space set aside by the Authority for the parking of that particular description, type or class of vehicle; or
(b) in an appropriate parking space allocated by the Authority for the use of that person or of a particular class of persons.
(2) Where by-law 21(1) applies, no vehicle in respect of which a car park pass is issued shall be parked in a car park other than in an appropriate parking space in such car park in respect of which the car park pass is valid.
(3) In the event of a contravention of this by-law the owner of the vehicle commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 3 of 2021)
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

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

26. Offences by drivers
(1) The driver of a vehicle in a car park shall comply with all lawful directions given to him by any attendant or authorized officer.
(2) The driver of a vehicle in a car park shall obey all signs and signals exhibited in the car park for the direction or regulation of vehicles therein.
(3) The driver of a vehicle in a car park shall park the vehicle in such place in the car park as an attendant or authorized officer may direct. (L.N. 418 of 1984)
(3A) No driver shall bring into a car park a vehicle which is carrying dangerous goods to which the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap. 295) applies. (L.N. 418 of 1984)
(4) When a vehicle has been parked in a car park, the driver and all passengers shall leave the car park as soon as is practicable thereafter by such means of exit from the car park as is indicated by signs erected under by-law 16.
(4A) 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; L.N. 418 of 1984)
(5) The driver of a vehicle in a car park shall, when so requested, give his name and address to any attendant or authorized officer.
(6) No person shall sound a warning instrument in a car park.
(7) No person shall park a vehicle in a car park in such a manner that the vehicle unnecessarily projects over any line or other mark which divides the parking space in which the vehicle is parked from any other parking space or from any other part of the car park.
(8) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes this by-law commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (L.N. 418 of 1984; E.R. 3 of 2021)