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Part II prescribes the general responsibilities of employers and occupiers of premises. The employers are responsible for ensuring the safety and health of their employees at work. Occupiers of premises where persons working there are not their employees, are also responsible for ensuring the safety and health of those employees.
(For example, in the case of a department store, the occupier has a duty for the safety and health, including general facilities and amenities, of all persons working therein, but the safety and health of employees who are posted by a franchised company to work in a sales booth in the department store is the responsibility of the company, while such employees are working within the company's booth)
Part III enables the Commissioner for Labour to issue improvement notices and suspension notices, the latter against any activity at the workplaces which creates, or is likely to create, an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury to the employees. It also confers a right of appeal by the employers or occupiers, against the issue of suspension notice, to the Commissioner for Labour and the Administrative Appeals Board. Failure to comply with an improvement notice or a suspension notice constitutes an offence punishable by a fine of up to $200,000 and $500,000 respectively, and imprisonment for up to 12 months.
Part IV provides for the reporting of accidents resulting in death or incapacity, and dangerous occurrences at the workplaces, by the proprietors, the notification by medical practitioners of cases of occupational disease, and the holding of informal and formal inquiries into accidents by the Commissioner for Labour.
Part V provides for the appointment and functions of public officers to administer the Bill's provisions.
Part VI prescribes miscellaneous offences, such as the disclosure of the identities of complainants; interference with or misuse of equipment for safety and health at the workplace; prevention, obstruction or delay in the provision of aid to an employee who has sustained an injury or illness in a workplace, etc.
Part VII sets out the procedure for prosecuting offences under the Bill.
Part VIII empowers the Commissioner for Labour to make regulations to supplement the Bill's provisions, to issue, amend and revoke workplace codes of practice, and to amend schedules to the Bill.
Part IX provides for the provisions of the Bill to prevail over any possible inconsistent provisions of the Ordinance, and makes consequential amendments to the Administrative Appeals Board Ordinance.
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