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MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 13 of 2000
A449

(4) The Corporation shall cause printed copies of all bylaws made under this section to be kept at its registered office and to be available for sale to any person at a reasonable cost.

35. Further powers in relation to regulations and bylaws

(1) Regulations made under section 33 or bylaws made under section 34 may confer authority upon employees of the Corporation or persons authorized by the Corporation in that regard on railway premises or in transport interchanges—

(a) to detain any person reasonably suspected of having contravened this Ordinance, the regulations or bylaws and to take such other steps as may be provided for in the regulations or bylaws to ensure that the person is dealt with in accordance with law;
(b) to stop, search and detain any vehicle in connection with any contravention against this Ordinance, the regulations or bylaws.

(2) Regulations made under section 33(1)(f) or bylaws made under section 34 may confer powers upon an employee of the Corporation or any person authorized by the Corporation in that regard—

(a) to request a person suspected of having contravened this Ordinance, the regulations or bylaws to give his personal particulars to the requestor;
(b) if a vehicle is involved in that contravention, to request the registered owner of the vehicle to give the personal particulars of the driver of the vehicle at the material time to the requestor.

(3) Regulations made under section 33 or bylaws made under section 34 may provide that a contravention of a specified provision of the regulations or bylaws is an offence and may prescribe penalties for that contravention not exceeding a fine at level 2 and imprisonment for 6 months.

(4) Regulations made under section 33 or bylaws made under section 34 which provide that hawking on railway premises is an offence may also provide that all or any part of sections 86, 86A, 86C and 86D of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) are to apply as if that offence was a hawker offence within the meaning of section 83 of that Ordinance.

(5) Bylaws made under section 34(1)(d) may provide for a fixed penalty to be payable for contravention of any specified provision of the bylaws and for the recovery of that fixed penalty.