Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (VENTILATING SYSTEMS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5A

Issue of certificates by registered specialist contractors

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) A registered specialist contractor in the appropriate category who
inspects any ventilating system shall within 14 days of such inspection issue
to the person on whose instructions the inspection was carried out a
certificate and send a copy thereof to the Director. (L.N. 517 of 1997)

(2) A certificate issued under paragraph (1) shall state-

   (a)  the address at which the inspection was carried out;

   (b)  whether or not the dampers, filters and precipitators are in safe and
        efficient working order; and

   (c)  the name and address of the registered specialist contractor in the
        appropriate category who carried out the inspection. (L.N. 517 of
        1997)

(3) Any person who-

   (a)  contravenes paragraph (1); or

   (b)  makes or causes to be made in a certificate issued under paragraph (1)
        a statement which he knows or reasonably ought to know to be false in
        a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
        liable on conviction to a fine of $2000 and to imprisonment for 6
        months. (L.N. 60 of 1971)