FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS
- CHAPTER 59E

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - LONG TITLE  
Empowering section VerDate:30/06/1997



(Cap 59, section 7)

[12 March 1965]

(L.N. 39 of 1965)



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 1
Citation VerDate:30/06/1997



These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial 
Undertakings (Notification of Occupational Diseases) Regulations.



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2
Interpretation VerDate:30/06/1997



In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"medical practitioner" (醫生) means a person who is registered, or deemed to 
be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration 
Ordinance (Cap 161);
"occupational disease" (職業病) means any disease specified in the First 
Schedule.
"medical practitioner" (醫生)
"occupational disease" (職業病)


FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3
Medical practitioners to notify cases of occupational disease VerDate:30/06/1997




(1)	If, upon an examination of any person who is or has been 
employed in an industrial undertaking or of the body of any deceased 
person who was at the time of his death so employed or who had been so 
employed, a medical practitioner believes that that person is suffering 
from an occupational disease or was at the time of his death suffering 
from an occupational disease, he shall forthwith notify the Director of 
Health by sending to him 2 copies of a notice in the form prescribed in 
the Second Schedule.

(2) The Director of Health shall deliver to the Commissioner 1 copy of the 
notice given pursuant to paragraph (1).

(3)	(a)	A medical practitioner who makes application 
therefor within 1 month after the giving of the notice shall be paid by  
the Director of Health a fee of $2 in respect of each notice given 
pursuant to paragraph (1).

        (b)	Sub-paragraph (a) does not apply in the case of a medical 
practitioner who is a public officer.
(L.N. 76 of 1989)



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4
Offences and penalties VerDate:30/06/1997



Any person who contravenes regulation 3 (1) shall be guilty of an offence 
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $10000.
(L.N. 317 of 1981)



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 1
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE VerDate:30/06/1997



[regulation 2]

1.	Poisoning by lead, manganese, phosphorus, arsenic, mercury, 
carbon bisulphide, benzene or a homologue thereof, a nitro-derivative or 
amido-derivative of benzene or of a homologue of benzene, dinitrophenol or 
a homologue of dinitrophenol, cadmium, tri-cresyl phosphate, halogen 
derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series or nitrous fumes.

2.	Anthrax.

3.	Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin or ulceration of the 
corneal surface of the eye.

4.	Chrome ulceration.

5.	Inflammation or ulceration of the skin produced by dust, liquid 
or vapour (including the condition known as chloracne but excluding chrome 
ulceration).

6.	Heat cataract.

7.	Decompression sickness.

8.	Pathological manifestations due to radium or other radioactive 
substances or X-rays.

9.	Silicosis.  (L.N. 317 of 1981)

10.	Asbestosis.  (L.N. 317 of 1981)



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 2
Notice of Occupational Disease VerDate:30/06/1997



[regulation 3(1)]
FORM OF NOTICE

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOTIFICATION
OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS

	
	FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
	Case No.:-
	Ref. No.:-
	Action taken:-
	
	
	
	
	
	
To: Director of Health
Notice is hereby given of the following occupational disease-
...........................................................................
...............
confirmed/suspected*
...........................................................................
...............
Possible cause- 
..................................................................
Date contracted/of recurrence*- .........................................
Name of patient/deceased*- ...............................................
Sex- .....................................  Age- 
..................................
Home address- 
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..................................................................
Employed as- 
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	Name, address and trade or industry of employer- 
..................................................................
	...........................................................................
.................................................................
	Hospital sent to (if any)- 
...........................................................................
............................
	Name and address of notifying medical practitioner- 
...............................................................
	Date- 
...........................................................................
...................................... 19 ............
	
	.........................................................................
	Signature of notifying medical practitioner
	* Delete whichever is in applicable.
(L.N. 76 of 1989)