Hong Kong Regulations

RADIATION (CONTROL OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 14

Conditions for continued employment

(1) No proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected 
industrial undertaking shall continue to employ any person for any period
exceeding 14 months in any work involving the handling or transport of any
unsealed radioactive substance unless such person undergoes medical
examination by the panel, including blood examination, at intervals of not
more than 14 months during the continuance of such employment and is after
each examination certified by the Board to be fit for such employment.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in subregulation (1), the Authority may
require, by notice in writing served upon the proprietor of such undertaking,
that any person employed by him in any work or process involving the handling
or transport of any unsealed radioactive substance shall undergo medical
examination by the panel, including blood examination, at such time or at such
lesser intervals than those specified in subregulation (1) as the Authority,
having regard to the circumstances of the case, may consider expedient to
safeguard the health of such person; and if such person fails to submit to
examination or, after examination, is certified by the Board to be unfit for
such employment, such proprietor shall, forthwith upon receipt of notice in
writing to that effect from the Authority, cease to employ such person on such
work or process.

(3) Whenever a notice in writing is served upon any proprietor of an
affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking in pursuance of the
powers conferred by subregulation (2), a copy thereof shall also be served
upon the person to which the notice relates.

(4) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected 
industrial undertaking who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the
provisions of subregulation (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and
liable on conviction to a fine of $15000. (L.N. 226 of 1990) (L.N. 98 of 1970)