TNAG-1363-FCO40-1809-Hong-Kong-Hansard-reports-and-minutes-of-the-meetings-of-the-1985 — Page 242

2

#1

proposal, the person having management or control of a notifiable

workplace is required to notify the Commissioner for Labour

before the workplace begins operation.

The definition of

"notifiable workplace" is the same as the existing definition

of "registrable workplace"

If the Commissioner for Labour considers that a

notifiable workplace cannot be operated with due regard to

health, safety and welfare standards, he may issue a notice

to prohibit its operation. The Commissioner may cancel a

prohibition notice but in doing so may give directions as to

the operation of the workplace concerned. A proprietor may

apply to the Commissioner to lift a prohibition notice. He

may also appeal to the Governor in Council against the

Commissioner's decision.

To save unnecessary paper work, it is proposed

that all workplaces which have been registered or provisionally

registered under the existing Ordinance will be deemed as

having been notified to the Commissioner for Labour. It is

further proposed that all other notifiable workplaces which

are already on the Factory Inspectorate's records before the

new Bill comes into operation will be exempted from notification

and the proprietors will be so informed individually within

six months.

The change of the term "registrable workplace"

to "notifiable workplace" will require consequential amendments

to the Federation of Hong Kong Industries Ordinance, the

Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, and subsidiary

legislation under the Radiation Ordinance and the Factories

and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.