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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

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MEASURES TO ENSURE SAFETY OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS

FOR ENSURING RESPONSIBLE ARE OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS

WITHIN ELECTRICAL WIRING INSTALLATIONS ARE PROPERLY MAINTAINED PRIVATE PREMISES.

THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES,

IN REPLY THE

COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN QUESTION FROM THE HON C.K. POON.

THAT THE IR

SAID TO A

SUPPLY SUPPLIED ΤΟ

UNDER EXISTING LEGISLATION, MR BARNES SAID, ELECTRICITY COMPANIES ARE REQUIRED TO ENSURE THAT ELECTRICITY IS NOT INSTALLATIONS WHICH MAY CAUSE ELECTRICAL SHOCK OR FIRE.

WITH

AND FREE FROM "TO ENSURE THAT ALL NEW INSTALLATIONS ARE SAFE FIRE HAZARDS, OWNERS OF PRIVATE BUILDINGS ARE OBLIGED TO CONFORM REQUIREMENTS LAID DOWN IN THE SUPPLY RULES OF THE TWO POWER COMPANIES FOR ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS AND TO PASS TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE COMPANIES BEFORE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY IS CONNECTED TO THE BUILDINGS.

ALSO EMPOWERED

POWER

AND TEST SUSPECTED TO

INSPECT TO ARE "POWER COMPANIES INSTALLATIONS IN CONSUMERS' PREMISES IF THE LATTER WERE BK IN A DEFECTIVE CONDITION.

AT SOME

"AFTER INSPECTION AND TESTING, IF THE COMPANY IS SATISFIED THAT INSTALLATION, THE PART

CONSUMERS' THE OF DEFECT EXISTS

THE REMOVE

DEFECT. ΤΟ THE CONSUMER COMPANY MAY BY NOTICE REQUIRE

POWER TO THE

REMOVED,

"THE COMPANY MAY ALSO DISCONTINUE THE SUPPLY OF PREMISES IN QUESTIONS UNTIL THE DEFECT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY MR BARNES SAID.

"

IN

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT SUCH AS MR BARNES ADDED THAT PLACES OF RESTAURANTS AND CINEMAS ARE SUBJECT TO MORE STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS

IS THE SAFETY OF ELECTRICAL THAT ONE OF THE LICENSING CONDITIONS INSTALLATIONS IN THESE PREMISES.

THE

"APPLICATIONS IN RESPECT OF THESE PREMISES ARE REFERRED TO

ENSURE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT WHO WILL THEN INSPECT THE PREMISES TO

HAVE INSTALLATIONS ELECTRICAL

BEEN THAT, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, THE

THIS UNTIL

IS DONE, CERTIFIED BY THE ELECTRICITY LICENCES ARE NOT ISSUED.

COMPANY. SUPPLY

AN ADMINISTRATIVE BASIS,

MR BARNES SAID.

"SIMILAR PROCEDURES ARE ADOPTED, ON FOR OLD PEOPLE'S HOMES AND BED-SPACE APARTMENTS,

ALSO TAKE DEPARTMENT WOULD PUBLIC

FIRE ABOUT POSSIBLE THE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS SERVICES, OR EITHER THE FIRE

CARRIED

MR BARNES SAID THE FIRE SERVICES ACTION ON INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE HAZARDS, AND ANYONE WHO SUSPECTED THAT IN HIS BUILDING WERE UNSAFE MAY CONTACT THE POWER COMPANY, OR BOTH, AND REQUEST THAT AN INSPECTION BE OUT.

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