Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS (SAFETY) REGULATION - SECT 11

Director's powers

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PART V

DIRECTOR'S POWERS

(1) Notwithstanding that a certificate of safety compliance has been issued,
where in the opinion of the Director, an electrical product does not comply
with the safety requirements, the Director may serve a written notice on the
supplier of the electrical product concerned-

   (a)  requiring that supplier or that supplier's agent to-

        (i)    notify the purchasers to whom the supplier or the supplier's
               agent has supplied the electrical product of the hazardous
               defects in the product;

        (ii)   accept a return of the product; and

        (iii)  refund the purchasers any sum paid for the product subject to a
               condition that a receipt for the product is surrendered to that
               supplier or that supplier's agent; and

   (b)  requiring that supplier or that supplier's agent to make public any
        notification referred to in paragraph (a)(i) and to publicize the
        matters referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) and (iii) by-

        (i)    making announcements each lasting not less than 30 seconds, at
               least once on a week-day and once on a Sunday, on 4 television
               channels approved by the Director; and

        (ii)   placing advertisements of not less than 26 cm × 17 cm in size,
               at least once on a week-day and once on a Sunday, in 4 Chinese
               language newspapers and one English language newspaper in Hong
               Kong.

(2) The Director may specify in the notice issued under subsection

(1) the type of information required in the announcements and advertisements.

(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Director may order the
supplier or the supplier's agent of the electrical product concerned to use
such other effective means to notify the purchasers of hazardous defects in
the product as the Director considers reasonable.