Hong Kong Ordinances

BEDSPACE APARTMENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 18

Precautions for safety and sanitation

PART V

SAFETY AND SANITATION

(1) A licensed bedspace apartment shall comply with such standards and
requirements relating to building and fire safety and sanitation as are
provided for in this section.

(2) The design, structure, construction and the means of ingress and egress of
the premises used or intended to be used as a licensed  bedspace apartment and
the properties of the materials of which such premises and any partitions
therein are constructed shall be such, and such fire service installations and
equipment, means of escape and sanitary and plumbing facilities shall be
provided in such premises, as to provide safe and hygienic accommodation to
the occupiers and to ensure their safe escape in the event of a fire or other
emergency.

(3) Any premises used or intended to be used as a licensed bedspace  apartment
and all fixtures, fittings, equipment, facilities and installations in or on
such premises and any exit routes and means of escape therefrom shall be
properly maintained in good repair and a safe condition free from any risk of
fire or injury to person, and any hazards to the safety of the occupiers
occasioned by any dilapidation or lack of proper maintenance of any such
fixtures, fittings, equipment, facilities or installations or any obstruction
of any such exit routes or means of escape shall be repaired, remedied or
removed as soon as practicable.

(4) All fire service installations and equipment and all electrical wiring and
installations in any premises used or intended to be used as a
licensed bedspace apartment shall be installed and maintained by contractors
possessing such qualifications as may be required by any enactment applicable
to the installation or maintenance thereof. (Enacted 1994)