### Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) Regulations 《港口管制(貨物裝卸區)規例》

7D. Operation area permits
(1) The Director may, upon application and on payment of the fee prescribed in the Schedule by any person, issue to the person an operation area permit to permit him to—
(a) deposit any cargo or cargo container;
(b) operate a mobile crane;
(c) operate a fork lift truck; (L.N. 279 of 1999)
(d) keep a mobile office or mobile shelter; and (L.N. 279 of 1999)
(e) van or devan a cargo container not across a seawall, (L.N. 279 of 1999)
within the area specified in the permit forming part of a public cargo working area or public water-front.
(2) An operation area permit—
(a) shall be valid only in respect of the public cargo working area or public water-front specified in the permit; and
(b) shall, unless earlier cancelled under regulation 21, be valid for a period not exceeding 1 calendar month, expiring at the end of the last day of the month for which it is issued; and
(c) may from time to time be renewed.
(3) An application for the issue or renewal of an operation area permit shall be made to the Director in such manner as he may specify.
(L.N. 71 of 1999)

7E. Vanning and devanning permits
(1) The supervisor may, upon application by any person and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue to that person a vanning and devanning permit to van or devan not across a seawall a cargo container specified in the permit, within a public cargo working area or public water-front specified in the permit.
(2) A vanning and devanning permit is valid—
(a) only for the public cargo working area or public water-front specified in the permit; and
(b) until the vanning or devanning of the container specified in the permit is completed.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), any person who vans or devans a container within a public cargo working area or public water-front without a valid vanning and devanning permit is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2. (E.R. 1 of 2021)
(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to a person who has been issued with an operation area permit which is valid in respect of the public cargo working area or public water-front.
(L.N. 279 of 1999)

### Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) Regulations 《港口管制(貨物裝卸區)規例》

8. Prohibition of sale, etc., of cargo
(1) No person shall sell or otherwise deal in cargo—
(a) in a public cargo working area or public water-front; or
(b) in any vessel or vehicle in such an area or water-front.
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (E.R. 1 of 2021)

9. Inspection, etc. of cargo
(1) No person shall, unless he is authorized in writing by the Director, engage in the inspection, weighing or measurement of cargo or cargo containers in a public cargo working area or public water-front.
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2. (E.R. 1 of 2021)

10. Prohibition of certain vehicles at public water-fronts
(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), no person shall bring any vehicle other than a goods vehicle, or cause any vehicle other than a goods vehicle to be brought, into a public water-front. (L.N. 125 of 1985)
(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a mobile crane or fork lift truck. (L.N. 71 of 1999)
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (E.R. 1 of 2021)

### Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) Regulations 《港口管制(貨物裝卸區)規例》

11. Movement of vessels or vehicles
(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of these regulations, a supervisor may require the person in charge of a vessel, or the driver of a vehicle, in a public cargo working area or public water-front to move the vessel or vehicle from one place within the public cargo working area or public water-front to another. (L.N. 332 of 1982)
(2) The person in charge of a vessel, or the driver of a vehicle, in a public cargo working area or public water-front shall at all reasonable times attend at the place where the vessel is berthed or the vehicle is parked or kept waiting:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply where a vessel is berthed or a vehicle is parked at a place set aside by the Director in which vessels may be berthed or vehicles may be parked unattended.
(3) If the person in charge of a vessel or the driver of a vehicle—
(a) fails to move his vessel or vehicle in accordance with a requirement under paragraph (1); or
(b) is not in attendance in accordance with paragraph (2),
he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (L.N. 332 of 1982; E.R. 1 of 2021)
(4) Where a supervisor has reason to believe that an offence has been committed under paragraph (3) he may, with the assistance of any other person, move the vessel or vehicle referred to in that paragraph from one place in the public cargo working area or public water-front to another. (L.N. 332 of 1982)

### Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) Regulations 《港口管制(貨物裝卸區)規例》

11A. Removal of vessels
(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of these regulations, the Director may, where any vessel enters, or remains in, a public cargo working area or public water-front in contravention of these regulations, direct the owner or the person in charge of such vessel to remove the vessel from the public cargo working area or public water-front within such time as the Director may specify in the direction.
(2) If the owner or the person in charge of a vessel fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a direction given under paragraph (1), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (E.R. 1 of 2021)
(3) Where the Director has reason to believe that an offence has been committed under paragraph (2) he may, whether or not any person is or will be prosecuted for that offence, remove such vessel or cause it to be removed from the public cargo working area or public water-front and may take possession of the vessel or cause possession of it to be taken for the purposes of such removal.
(4) The Director may recover the cost of any action taken or caused to be taken under paragraph (3) as a civil debt from the owner of the vessel in respect of which the action was taken.
(L.N. 332 of 1982)

12. Prohibition of rickshaws, handcarts, etc.
(1) No rickshaw, trolley, handcart or other similar form of conveyance shall be brought into, or used for the conveyance of cargo or cargo containers in, a public cargo working area or public water-front.
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (E.R. 1 of 2021)