Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (SAFETY OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 10

Suspension of registration

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If in the case of a person registered as a safety officer under regulation
7, or whose registration is renewed or revalidated under regulation 7B, it
appears to the Commissioner for Labour that that person has without reasonable
excuse failed to carry out the duties of a safety  officer under these
regulations, he may serve on that person a notice stating his intention to
suspend the registration of that person and the ground or grounds therefor and
requiring that person to show cause in writing, within 14 days after the
service of such notice, why the registration should not be suspended. (L.N.
100 of 2002)

(2) Where after a notice is served on a person under paragraph (1)-

   (a)  that person does not show cause in writing why the registration should
        not be suspended; or

   (b)  the Commissioner for Labour is of the opinion that that person has not
        shown good cause in writing why the registration should not be
        suspended, the Commissioner for Labour may by notice in writing
        suspend the registration for such time being not more than 12 months
        as shall be specified therein. (Enacted 1986)