### Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations (words omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012) 《道路交通(車輛構造及保養)規例》

64. Electrical equipment
(1) All electrical apparatus and circuits in every bus and light bus shall be so constructed and installed as to guard adequately against the risk of electric shock and the outbreak of fire.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where the voltage exceeds 100 volts in one or more electrical circuits in a bus or light bus, a manually operated isolating switch which is capable of disconnecting all such circuits from the main electrical supply shall be connected in each pole of that supply which is not electrically connected to earth, and shall be located inside the bus or light bus in a position readily accessible to the driver or conductor.
(3) No isolating switch fitted under paragraph (2) shall be capable of disconnecting any electrical circuit supplying the lamps required to be carried under Part VII of these regulations.
(4) In this regulation any reference to an electrical circuit is a reference to an electrical circuit not being a high tension ignition circuit or a circuit within a unit of equipment.

### Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations (words omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012) 《道路交通(車輛構造及保養)規例》

65. Steps, platforms and stairs
(1) In every bus and light bus—
(a) the top of the tread of the lowest step provided at any entrance or exit, other than an emergency exit, shall be not more than 450 millimetres nor less than 250 millimetres above the ground when the vehicle is empty;
(b) all steps shall be fitted with non-slip treads; and
(c) fixed steps shall be not less than 230 millimetres in depth and shall in no case project laterally beyond the body of the vehicle unless they are so protected by the front wings of the vehicle or otherwise that they are not liable to injure pedestrians.
(2) In every bus—
(a) any rear platform shall be not more than 450 millimetres nor less than 250 millimetres above the ground when the vehicle is empty;
(b) the outer edge of any rear platform shall be fitted with non-slip treads; and
(c) risers shall not be more than 270 millimetres in height.
(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), in the case of a double-decked bus—
(a) the risers of all steps leading from the lower to the upper deck shall be closed and no unguarded aperture shall be left at the top landing board;
(b) all steps leading from the lower to the upper deck shall be fitted with non-slip treads;
(c) the horizontal distance from the nearest point of the riser of the top step to the vertical line passing through the nearest point of the seat opposite to the top tread of the staircase, excluding any grab rail which does not project more than 200 millimetres from the back of the seat, shall not be less than 600 millimetres; and
(d) the outer stringer of an outside staircase shall be so constructed, or a band shall be so placed, as to act as a screen to persons ascending or descending, and the height of the outer guard rail shall not be less than 1.2 metres above the front of the tread of each step.
(4) The deck of every bus shall be fitted with a non-slip surface.

### Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations (words omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012) 《道路交通(車輛構造及保養)規例》

67. Entrances and exits on light buses
(1) There must be at least 2 exits (one of which may be an emergency exit) on a light bus, and the exits must be situated on at least 2 of the following—
(a) the near side of the light bus;
(b) the off side of the light bus;
(c) the rear of the light bus. (L.N. 164 of 2021)
(2) Handrails shall be fitted on each side of every entrance and exit provided in a light bus (other than an emergency exit) to assist passengers to board or alight from the vehicle.
(3) Every entrance and every exit of a light bus shall, subject to paragraph (5), be not less than 530 millimetres wide. (L.N. 164 of 2021)
(4) The clear height of every exit of a light bus shall be not less than 1.2 metres.
(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), the Commissioner may permit in writing the use of a light bus the entrances or exits of which are less than 530 millimetres wide.

67A. Driver’s door on light bus
(1) In this regulation—
driver’s door (司機門) means a door provided at the driver’s compartment of a light bus to enable the driver to board or alight from the light bus.
(2) For the purposes of this Part (except regulations 71 and 72(5)), a driver’s door of a light bus is an emergency exit if—
(a) no seat is fitted immediately adjacent to the driver’s seat of the light bus;
(b) (where a separate seat is placed to the side of the driver’s seat of the light bus) there is a clear width of not less than 460 millimetres between the driver’s seat and the separate seat (measured from the edges of the 2 seats that are nearest to each other);
(c) the driver’s door is readily accessible to passengers without obstruction from the passenger seats through the gangway of the light bus and through the passage from the gangway to the driver’s seat (passage

### Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations (words omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012) 《道路交通(車輛構造及保養)規例》

75. Ventilation
Adequate ventilation shall be provided in every bus and light bus for the driver and passengers.

### Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations (words omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012) 《道路交通(車輛構造及保養)規例》

77. Windows to be guarded
The side windows in a single-decked bus with a permanent top and in the lower and upper decks of a double-decked bus shall, when open, if required by the Commissioner, be adequately guarded to a height of 1 metre from the deck.

78. Luggage racks
All luggage racks fitted in a bus and light bus shall be so designed and constructed that no article placed thereon, if it becomes dislodged whilst the vehicle is in motion, is likely to fall on the driver or interfere with his control of the vehicle.

78A. Installation of public address system
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), every bus and light bus used for carriage to or from an educational institution of the students of the institution, whether or not for hire or reward, shall have installed in the driver’s compartment a public address system or other audio device sufficient to enable the driver to address all passengers on the bus or the light bus. (L.N. 306 of 1998)
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a bus or light bus registered before 1 May 1997 until—
(a) that bus is required to be produced at any time on or after 1 November 1998 for examination pursuant to section 78 of the Ordinance; or
(b) 1 November 1999,
whichever is the earlier. (L.N. 306 of 1998)
(L.N. 96 of 1997)

78B. Display of signboard on buses carrying students
Every bus that is used for carriage to or from an educational institution of the students of the institution, whether or not for hire or reward, shall bear in or on the back of the vehicle, in such manner as is clearly visible rearwards, a signboard of the colour, design and dimensions set out in the diagram in the Fourteenth Schedule.
(L.N. 96 of 1997)