FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 59).
FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1971.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Com- missioner of Labour has made the following regulations--
I. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations 1971.
2. Regulation 29 of the principal regulations is revoked.
3. Regulation 33 of the principal regulations is amended, in paragraph (1). by deleting sub-paragraph (d) and substituting the following-
"(d) that in any registrable workplace, such measures as may be specified in the notice shall be taken to reduce the risk of-
(i) the outbreak of fire:
(ii) the spread of fire; and
(iii) the spread of smoke from any fire:".
Made by the Commissioner of Labour this 22nd day of December 1970.
Citation.
Revocation of regulation 29.
(Cap. 99. cub, leg.)
Amendment of regulation 3.
R.My. Adfestering Com
Commissioner of Labour.
Explanatory Note.
(This Nore is not part of the regulations, but it intended to indicate their general purport).
Regulation 29 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regula- tions, which required adequate means to be provided in registrable work- places for the closing of floor openings for shafts and driving belts in cases of dre, is revoked. It is considered that the Commissioner of labour will have sufficient powers under regulation 33 to require precautions to be taken against fre.
2. Regulation 33(1)(0) is amended to provide that the Commissioner may require measures to be taken in registrable workplaces to reduce the risk of the outbreak of fire, the spread of fire, and the spread of smoke from fire.