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Chapter: | 59V
![]() | Title: | FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (FIRE PRECAUTIONS IN NOTIFIABLE WORKPLACES) REGULATIONS | Gazette Number: | 32 of 2000 |
| Regulation: | 7 | Heading: | Smoking | Version Date: | 09/06/2000 |
(1) An occupational safety officer may, by notice in writing, prohibit smoking in any notifiable workplace, or in any part thereof, where any inflammable substance or any other substance or article which in his opinion involves danger from fire is present for the purposes of or in connexion with, any industrial process or operation, and the circumstances are such that smoking would give rise to a serious risk of fire. (32 of 2000 s. 48)
(2) No person shall smoke in any part of a notifiable workplace in which smoking is prohibited under paragraph (1).
(3) The proprietor of a notifiable workplace in which smoking is prohibited under paragraph (1) shall take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure compliance with the prohibition and shall display in prominent positions within the workplace sufficient number of notices bearing the words and characters "NO SMOKING 不准吸煙", in letters and characters not less than 180 millimetres high. (71 of 1989 s. 13)
(4) All notices displayed in accordance with paragraph (3) shall be maintained in good condition by the proprietor.