23 Mar 2016
HKSAR v. HO LOY
- Citation
- HKSAR v. HO LOY
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC7/2015
The court held that the meaning of a prescribed traffic sign is fixed by its content and explanatory note in Schedule 1 of the Regulations (and reflected in the Road Users Code), so the principle of legal certainty is satisfied; the offence under Regulations 50(2) and 61(2) is regulatory with mens rea displaced and subject only to the statutory defence of reasonable excuse; an honest but mistaken belief about a sign’s meaning does not constitute a reasonable excuse where the sign’s meaning is expressly stated in the Regulations and Code and where a person can readily ascertain that meaning; t…