Hong Kong Regulations

GAS SAFETY (REGISTRATION OF GAS INSTALLERS AND GAS CONTRACTORS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 33

Voluntary surrender of registration document

(1) Subject to this regulation, a registered gas installer or gas  contractor
may surrender his registration document by lodging it at the office of the
Authority.

(2) The surrender of a registration document under subregulation

(1) shall not have effect until the gas installer or gas contractor to whom
that document was issued is served with a notice by the Authority stating that
the Authority accepts the surrender of such document.

(3) The Authority may refuse to accept the surrender of a
registration document under subregulation (1) where the gas installer or
gas contractor to whom that document was issued has been served a notice under
regulation 26(1)(a) unless and until the complaint to which that notice
relates has been disposed of by the Authority-

   (a)  taking disciplinary action; or

   (b)  refusing to take disciplinary action, against that gas installer or
        gas contractor.

(4) Immediately upon the surrender of a registration document under
subregulation (1) having effect in accordance with subregulation (2), the
gas installer or gas contractor to whom that document was issued shall cease
to be a registered gas installer or gas contractor, as the case may be, but
shall remain liable for-

   (a)  any act or omission done, caused, permitted or made by him prior to
        the surrender; and

   (b)  any liability incurred by him under the Ordinance prior to the
        surrender. (Enacted 1990)