Hong Kong Regulations

PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2

Interpretation

(Past version on 01/01/2004).
(Past version on 01/01/2000).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).



"fire service installations and equipment" (消防裝置及設備)

"fixed electrical installation" (固定電力裝置)

"laser equipment" (激光設備)

"licence" (牌照)

"Municipal Services Appeals Board" (市政服務上訴委員會)

"new structure" (新構築物)

"premises" (處所)

"provisional licence" (臨時牌照)

"structure" (構築物) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires-

"fire service installations and equipment" (消防裝置及設備) means any
installations and equipment manufactured, used or designed to be used for the
purposes of-

   (a)  extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire;

   (b)  giving warning of a fire; (7 of 2003 s. 22)

   (c)  providing access to any premises or place for the purpose of
        extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire; (L.N. 224 of
        1980)

   (d)  facilitating the evacuation from any premises or place in case of
        fire; or (7 of 2003 s. 22)

   (e)  providing a stand-by power supply to an installation and equipment the
        purposes of which are mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) in the event
        of the loss of normal power supply; (7 of 2003 s. 22)

"fixed electrical installation" (固定電力裝置) has the meaning assigned
to it by section 2 of the Electricity Ordinance ( Cap 406); (L.N. 193 of 1996)

"laser equipment" (激光設備) means any appliance, apparatus or equipment
which is capable of producing or amplifying electromagnetic radiation in the
wavelength range from 180 nm to 1 mm primarily by the process of controlled
stimulated emission; (L.N. 193 of 1996; L.N. 391 of 1996)

"licence" (牌照) means a licence granted or renewed under regulation 3, 3A,
3B or 162; (L.N. 198 of 2006)

"Municipal Services Appeals Board" (市政服務上訴委員會) means the
Municipal  Services Appeals Board established under section 3 of the
Municipal  Services Appeals Board Ordinance ( Cap 220); (78 of 1999 s. 7)

"new structure" (新構築物) means any structure hereafter erected or
adapted for use as a place of public entertainment; (39 of 1985 s. 60)

"premises" (處所) means a place of public entertainment and includes any
means of ingress or egress for the purposes of and in connection with such
place, and in cases in which such place consists of a part or parts only of a
structure includes also any other part or parts of such structure used or
intended to be used for the purposes of and in connection with such place;

"provisional licence" (臨時牌照) means a licence granted under regulation
3A or renewed under regulation 3B; (L.N. 198 of 2006)

"structure" (構築物) includes any building, booth, matshed, grandstand,
tent or other erection; (L.N. 9 of 1970) (G.N.A. 87 of 1952; L.N. 193 of 1996;
78 of 1999 s. 7)