Hong Kong Regulations

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

Renewal and revalidation of registration

(1) A registered safety officer who wishes to renew his registration as a
safety officer under regulation 7(2) shall submit to the Commissioner for
Labour an application for renewal in the approved form prior to but not
earlier than 9 months before the expiration of his registration.

(2) Any registration in respect of which an application for renewal is made
under this regulation and which expires prior to the determination of such
application shall, unless the application is withdrawn or the registration is
cancelled under regulation 9 or suspended under regulation 10, remain valid
pending the determination by the Commissioner for Labour of that application.

(3) A renewal of registration under this regulation shall have effect from the
day following the day on which the registration would have expired but for
paragraph (2), for a period of 4 years.

(4) A person whose registration under regulation 7(2) has expired and ceased
to have effect and who wishes to revalidate that registration shall not make a
new application for registration under regulation 7 but shall submit to the
Commissioner for Labour an application for the revalidation of his expired
registration in the approved form.

(5) Where the Commissioner for Labour approves the revalidation of an expired
registration, the registration shall become revalidated for a period of 4
years from the date of approval.

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the Commissioner for Labour may, in his
discretion, renew or revalidate the registration of a person as a
safety officer under regulation 7(2), as the case may be, and may impose such
conditions in relation to that renewal or that revalidation as he thinks fit.

(7) The Commissioner for Labour shall not approve an application for renewal
or revalidation unless he is satisfied that the applicant has completed a
total of not less than 100 hours of Continuing Professional 
Development Programme in occupational safety and health in the 4 years
immediately preceding the application.

(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7), "Continuing Professional Development
Programme" (專業進修計劃) means a course, lecture, seminar or other
programme or method of study (whether requiring attendance or not) that, in
the opinion of the Commissioner for Labour, is relevant to the needs and
professional standards of registered safety officers, enhances professional
competence and complies with any notes of guidance in that behalf as may be
issued from time to time by the Commissioner for Labour.

(9) This regulation does not apply to a person whose registration as a
safety officer under regulation 7(2) has been cancelled under regulation 9.
(L.N. 100 of 2002)

"Continuing Professional Development Programme" (專業進修計劃)