7 Apr 1982
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO LTD
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO LTD
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC1112/1981
The court held that generally electrically qualified workmen are within the protection of Regulation 47(1) and the definitions are to be given a wide liberal construction; however, where the contextual facts show the work being performed was the implementation of the safety measures mandated by Regulation 47(1) (for example testing, switching or other measures to render apparatus safe), that implementing work is not to be treated as 'construction work' for the purposes of the Regulation. Applying that principle the activity at Kingsway was implementation of safety/testing measures and Kingswa…