Hong Kong Regulations

QUARRIES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6

Grounds for approval of deputy supervisor

(1) Where, on an application for the approval of any person as a deputy
supervisor of a quarry, the Commissioner for Labour is satisfied that the
applicant-

   (a)  is not less than 25 years of age;

   (b)  has had not less than 3 years practical experience in work in
        quarries; and

   (c)  is competent to be an approved deputy supervisor of the quarry for the
        purposes of these regulations, and that the proprietor consents to the
        approval of the applicant, the Commissioner for Labour may approve the
        applicant as a deputy supervisor of the quarry.

(2) Where the Commissioner for Labour approves under paragraph (1) any
applicant who has specified under regulation 5(3) a date before which the
applicant does not desire such approval to come into effect, such approval
shall come into effect on the date so specified.

(3) Subject to paragraph (2), every approval by the Commissioner for Labour
under paragraph (1) shall come into effect immediately.

(4) Where, at the time that any approval by the Commissioner for Labour under
paragraph (1) comes into effect, the applicant so approved is an
approved supervisor or an approved deputy supervisor of any other quarry, the
approval of the applicant in respect of such other quarry shall be deemed
thereupon to be withdrawn.

(5) Where the approval of any supervisor or deputy supervisor of a quarry is
deemed to be withdrawn under paragraph (4), the Commissioner shall forthwith
notify the proprietor of such quarry in writing, in English and in Chinese,
that such approval has been so withdrawn.