Traffic Regulation Ordinance (Cap. 65)
Traffic Regulation Ordinance (Cap. 65), article 15CA
15CA. (1)Where a Police officer reasonably suspects that:
(a) a person is driving or attempting to drive or is in
control of a motor vehicle or other vehicle on the road or othe r
public place and has drugs in his body or has committed an
offence against the provisions of this Ordinance or against any
regulations made thereunder whilst the motor vehicle or other
vehicle was in motion;
(b) a person has been driving or attempting to drive or
has been in control of a motor vehicle or other vehicle on the
road or other public place with drugs in his body and that
person still has drugs in his body;
(c) a person has been driving or attempting to drive or
has been in control of a motor vehicle or other vehicle on the
road or other public place and has committed an offence against
the provisions of this Ordinance or against any regulations
made thereunder whilst the motor vehicle or other vehicle was
in motion; or
(d) a person was driving or was attempting to drive or
was in control of a motor vehicle or other vehicle on the road or
other public place when the said motor vehicle or other vehicle
was involved in an accident,
he may require such person to provide a specimen of oral fluid for
a drug test.
Cap. 9.
(2) A Police officer may, without the need for reasonable
suspicion, require any person who was driving or attempting to drive
or is or was in control of a bus , coach, other vehicles carryin g
passengers for a fee, any M2 or M3 motor vehicle on a road or o ther
public place during road checks in accordance with the provisio ns of
article 355 of the Criminal Code , to provide a specimen of oral fluid
for a drug test.
(3) A Police officer shall require any person who was
driving or attempting to drive or is in control of a motor vehi cle or
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other vehicle on the road or other public place when involved i n a
serious traffic accident, to provide a specimen of oral fluid f or a drug
test.
Power to carry out
random tests.
Added by:
II.2026.8.
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