Hong Kong Regulations

CONSTRUCTION SITES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4A

Restriction on employment of persons under 18 years of age on construction sites

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

PART IA

EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS UNDER 18 ON CONSTRUCTION SITES

(1) The contractor responsible for a construction site shall ensure that no
person under 18 years of age is employed at any place on the site unless that
person-

   (a)  is apprenticed to that contractor or to any other contractor engaged
        in work at that site, under a contract of apprenticeship registered
        under the Apprenticeship Ordinance ( Cap 47);

   (b)  has completed an apprenticeship and possesses a certificate of
        completion issued under the Apprenticeship Ordinance ( Cap 47);

   (c)  has undertaken an approved training course and possesses a certificate
        of completion in respect of that course issued by the Authority in
        such form as the Authority may determine for that purpose; or

   (d)  is undergoing on-site training, as part of an approved training 
        course, under the supervision of any person authorized in writing by
        the Authority for that purpose.

(2) In this regulation- "approved training course" (認可訓練課程) means
such training course provided by the Authority as the Commissioner may approve
from time to time for the purposes of this regulation; "Authority" (當局)
means the Construction Industry Training Authority established under the
Industrial Training (Construction Industry)  Ordinance ( Cap 317). (Part IA
added L.N. 221 of 1994) "approved training course" (認可訓練課程)
"Authority" (當局)