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CAP. 59] Factories and Industrial Undertakings

[1973 Ed.

Regulations

[Subsidiary]

G.N.A. 103/55.

G.N.A. 70/56. G.N.A. 71/58. G.N.A. 74/58. 42 of 1961. L.N. 129/63. L.N. 189/67. L.N. 87/68. L.N. 29/69. L.N. 132/69. L.N. 10/71.

L.N. 221/73.

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS

REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59, section 7)

[29th September, 1955.]

Citation.

Interpretation.

(Cap. 123.)

G.N.A. 70/56. L.N. 29/69.

L.N. 132/69. First Schedule.

L.N. 132/69.

L.N. 132/69. (Cap. 177.)

L.N. 29/69.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "building authority" means the building authority as defined in the

Buildings Ordinance;

"building or engineering construction site" means the site of any industrial undertaking in which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in the construc- tion, reconstruction, maintenance (including redecoration and external cleaning), repair, alteration or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork, waterwork or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure;

"dangerous occurrence" means any occurrence specified in the First

Schedule;

"executive", in relation to a trade union, means the body to which the management of the affairs of the trade union is entrusted by the members and also means any person for the time being carrying out the functions of a president, chairman, vice- chairman, secretary or treasurer of a trade union;

"fire-resisting material" means a building material certified by the

building authority to be fire-resisting;

"identity card" means an identity card issued under the Registra-

tion of Persons Ordinance;

"mill-gearing" includes every shaft, wheel, drum and pulley and every other appliance by which motion or power is com- municated to any machine;

"overburden", in respect of a quarry, means any other substance which overlies the granite, porphyry or limestone which is extracted in the quarry;