Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (SAFETY OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 7

Application for and registration as safety officer

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) An application by a person for registration as a safety officer shall be
made to the Commissioner for Labour-

   (a)  in the approved form; and

   (b)  in the case where the applicant is a person qualified to be registered
        as a safety officer under regulation 5(3), within 12 months after
        these regulations become applicable to the class of industrial
        undertaking concerned. (L.N. 352 of 1994; L.N. 100 of 2002)

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Commissioner for Labour may, in his
discretion, register a person as a safety officer, and may impose such
conditions in relation to that registration as he thinks fit.

(3) The Commissioner for Labour shall not register an applicant as a
safety officer unless he is satisfied that the applicant is a person who is-

   (a)  qualified to be registered as a safety officer;

   (b)  competent to be registered as a safety officer; and

   (c)  fit and proper to be registered as a safety officer. (Enacted 1986)