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CAP. 327]

Lifts and Escalators (Safety)

(Cap. 123.)

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Disciplinary proceedings.

[1987 Ed.

(d) not more than 5 shall be engineers whose names are included in list II kept under section 3(2)(b) of the Buildings Ordinance.

(2) No person shall be appointed to be a member of the disciplinary board panel unless he has been in practice in Hong Kong for a period of at least 10 years and has been recommended by the Director after consultation with the appropriate Institution of which he is a member (where subsection (1)(a) or (b) applies) or after consultation with that person (where subsection (1)(c) or (d) applies).

(3) Members of the disciplinary board panel shall be ap- pointed for 3 years but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(4) Members of the disciplinary board panel may resign at any time by notice in writing given to the Secretary for Lands and Works

• Environment and Lands

Planning

(Added, 43 of 1987, s. 10)

9. (1) Where it appears to the Director that a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer has been convicted by any court of such an offence, or has in carrying out any lift works or escalator works, as the case may be, been guilty of such negligence or misconduct, as to-

(a) render the lift engineer or the escalator engineer unfit to be on the register of lift engineers or on the register of escalator engineers, or

(b) make the further inclusion on the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers of the lift engineer or escalator engineer prejudicial to the due administration of this Ordinance; or

(c) render the lift engineer or escalator engineer deserving of

censure, (Added, 43 of 1987, s. 11)

the Director may bring the matter to the notice of a disciplinary board appointed under section 8. (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 11)

(2) Where, after due inquiry, the disciplinary board is satisfied that the registered lift engineer or the registered escalator engineer has been convicted of such an offence or has been guilty of such negligence or misconduct as is referred to in subsection (1), such board may (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 11)

(a) order-

(i) that the name of the lift engineer or escalator engi- neer be removed from the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers or both registers, as the case may be, either permanently or for such period as the board directs; or

(ii) that the lift engineer or escalator engineer be reprimanded; and (Replaced, 43 of 1987, s. 11)

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