Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (LIFTING APPLIANCES AND LIFTING GEAR) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 21

Offences by competent examiners

(1) Any competent examiner who having carried out any test, inspection or
examination required by these regulations-

   (a)  fails or refuses to deliver forthwith, or within a reasonable time
        thereafter, to an owner a report referred to in regulation 6A(1)(b);

   (b)  fails or refuses to deliver forthwith, or within a reasonable time
        thereafter, to an owner a certificate referred to in regulation 5(1),

(2), (3), (4) or (5), 7B(1)(b), 7E(3), 7G(2) or 18(1)(d) or (e); or

   (c)  fails to comply with regulation 6A(1)(b) or 7E(4), shall be guilty of
        an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50000.
        (L.N. 285 of 1993)

(2) Any such competent examiner who delivers to an owner a certificate or
makes a report which is to his knowledge false as to a material particular
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of
$200000 and to imprisonment for 12 months. (71 of 1989 s. 13; L.N. 285 of
1993) (L.N. 116 of 1981; L.N. 23 of 1994)