Hong Kong Ordinances

TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS SAFETY ORDINANCE - SECT 9

Laboratories

(Past version on 30/06/1997).



"approved laboratory" (認可化驗所) PART V

LABORATORY TESTING

(1) In this section and sections 24(4)(b) and 25(4) "approved laboratory"
(認可化驗所) means a laboratory approved in writing by the Commissioner
for Innovation and Technology for the purpose of testing toys and children's
products. (Amended L.N. 218 of 2000)

(2) A person may, at his own expense, have a toy or children's product tested
by an approved laboratory to determine whether or not it complies with the
applicable requirements of at least one of the sets of safety standards listed
in section 3(1)(a), (b) and (c) or the relevant  specification, or at least
one of the relevant specifications (if there is more than one specification),
listed in the Schedule, as the case may be.

(3) The Commissioner may, where he has purchased or seized a toy or children's
product, have it tested by the Government Chemist to determine whether or not
it complies with the applicable requirements of at least one of the sets of
safety standards listed in section 3(1)(a), (b) and (c) or the
relevant specification, or at least one of the relevant  specifications (if
there is more than one specification), listed in the Schedule, as the case may
be. (Enacted 1992. Amended 16 of 1997 s. 7)