F 8
[Subsidiary]
Registers to be kept in quarry.
First Schedule. Form 2, 3 and 4.
Quarry to be fenced.
Warning notices.
CAP. 59]
Quarries (Safety) Regulations
[1981 Ed.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where the supervisor or deputy supervisor within the time specified in regulation 11 appeals against the decision of the Commissioner for Labour and the appeal is not disposed of within that specified time, the Commissioner for Labour may permit the supervisor or deputy supervisor to continue to be an approved supervisor or an approved deputy supervisor of the quarry on such conditions, if any, as the Commissioner for Labour thinks fit, until the appeal is disposed of.
PART III
REGISTERS
14. (1) In every quarry there shall at all times be kept and maintained the following registers-
(a) an Equipment Register;
(b) a Quarry Inspection Register; and
(c) a Time Register.
(2) Every register shall be in the prescribed form and may be maintained either in English or in Chinese.
(3) The proprietor of any quarry in respect of which paragraph (1) or (2) is contravened shall be guilty of an offence.
PART IV
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
15. (1) Every quarry shall be bounded by a five-strand wire fence or by such other type of fence as the Commissioner or any officer authorized in writing by the Commissioner for Labour may approve in writing in any particular case.
1.2 metres
(2) Every fence shall be not less than 4 feet in height above the ground.
(3) The proprietor of any quarry in respect of which paragraph (1) or (2) is contravened shall be guilty of an offence.
16. (1) Every quarry shall have along its boundary fences, at intervals of not more than 50 feet, warning notices in accordance with this regulation.
15 metres
(2) Every warning notice shall----
(a) face outwards from the quarry; and
(b) bear in letters and characters of not less than 40 millimetres in height, the following-
“DANGER-QUARRY
危險——石礦場”
Note: Parts III and IV came into operation on 1.10.1969,