2 Jan 1986
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. HARBOUR ENGINEERING CO. LTD.
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. HARBOUR ENGINEERING CO. LTD.
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1098/1985
The court held that the magistrate erred as a matter of law in imposing a 'sizeable undertaking' limitation on the Third Schedule and in treating the concrete casing separately from the telephone wires; the blocked concrete telephone-wire conduit together with its wires constitutes a telephonic installation and the work to expose and renew that conduit is construction work within s.2(1) Cap.59; accordingly the location was a construction site within Regulation 47(1) Cap.59; the matter was remitted to the magistrate to determine whether the workmen were liable to come into contact with the liv…