Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (GOODS LIFTS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 12

Offences by competent examiners

(1) Any competent examiner who, having carried out any examination for the
purposes of these regulations-

   (a)  fails to comply with regulation 5(2); or

   (b)  fails or refuses to sign, within a reasonable time after the
        examination, a register under regulation 6(2), shall be guilty of an
        offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50000.

(2) Any competent examiner who, having carried out any examination for the
purposes of these regulations-

   (a)  delivers to the owner or makes a report of the examination; or

   (b)  signs an entry in the register kept under regulation 6(2), 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. 325 of 1981; L.N.
        33 of 1994)