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The contractor was charged under regulation 38P(1) of the CSSR for failing to ensure the floor edge of a building from which any person on the site was liable to fall a distance of more than two metres was provided with a suitable guard rail.
The maximum penalty under the General Duties provision of the FIUO is $200,000 and imprisonment for six months; and that under the CSSR is $200,000 and imprisonment for 12 months.
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Stranded foreign waste goes home
All 50 containers (around 700 tonnes) of stranded foreign waste left Hong Kong today (Tuesday), as a result of close liaison work by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) with the relevant authorities in Europe.
The municipal and soiled plastic waste, believed to be mostly of German origin, was shipped from the Netherlands to Hong Kong and left unclaimed since arrival in April 1996.
On learning of the incident in late October 1996, the EPD immediately began pursuing arrangements for the return of the waste to the country of export.
The German and Dutch authorities have agreed to the return of the waste to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. They will sort out the responsibilities and waste disposal arrangement in Europe.
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