1981 Ed.]

Quarries (Safety) Regulations

[CAP. 59

a date before which the applicant does not desire such approval to come into effect, such approval shall come into effect on the date so specified.

(3) Subject to paragraph (2), every approval by the Commissioner for Labour under paragraph (1) shall come into effect immediately.

(4) Where, at the time that any approval by the Commissioner for Labour under paragraph (1) comes into effect, the applicant so approved is an approved supervisor or an approved deputy supervisor of any other quarry, the approval of the applicant in respect of such other quarry shall be deemed thereupon to be withdrawn.

(5) Where the approval of any supervisor or deputy supervisor of a quarry is deemed to be withdrawn under paragraph (4), the Commissioner shall forthwith notify the proprietor of such quarry in writing, in English and in Chinese, that such approval has been so withdrawn.

5. (1) An application for the approval of any person as a deputy supervisor of a quarry shall be made by that person in the prescribed form.

(2) Every application made under paragraph (1) shall have a full-face photograph of the applicant affixed thereto.

(3) Any application made under paragraph (1) may specify a date, being not more than 3 months later than the date of the application, before which the applicant does not desire the approval to come into effect.

6. (1) Where, on an application for the approval of any person as a deputy supervisor of a quarry, the Commissioner for Labour is satisfied that the applicant-

(a) is not less than 25 years of age;

(b) has had not less than 3 years practical experience in work in quarries; and

(c) is competent to be an approved deputy supervisor of the quarry for the purposes of these regulations,

and that the proprietor consents to the approval of the applicant, the Commissioner for Labour may approve the applicant as a deputy supervisor of the quarry.

(2) Where the Commissioner for Labour approves under paragraph (1) any applicant who has specified under regulation 5(3) a date before which the applicant does not desire such approval to come into effect, such approval shall come into effect on the date so specified.

(3) Subject to paragraph (2), every approval by the Commissioner for Labour under paragraph (1) shall come into effect immediately.

F 5

[Subsidiary]

Application for approval as deputy supervisor.

First Schedule. Form 1

Grounds for approval of deputy supervisor.

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