Company: GVH
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001493152-25-006117
Chunk: 82

Company: Globavend Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 82
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 conviction to a fine of HK$400,000 and imprisonment
of up to twelve months. An employer or occupier who fails to comply with such suspension notices without reasonable excuse commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of HK$1,000,000, to imprisonment for twelve months, and to a further fine of HK$100,000
for each day or part of a day during which such employer or occupier knowingly and intentionally continues the contravention.

Factories and Industrial Undertakings
Ordinance (Chapter 59 of the Laws of Hong Kong)

The Factories and
Industrial Undertaking Ordinance (the “ FIUO”) imposes general duties on proprietors of and persons employed at industrial
undertakings, including without limitation to cargo and container handling undertakings, factories and other industrial workplaces, to
ensure health and safety at work in such undertakings. Proprietor includes any person, body corporate, a firm, an occupier and the agent
of such an occupier having the management or control of the business carried on in an industrial undertaking for the time being.

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Section 6A(1) of
the FIUO provides that “it shall be the duty of every proprietor of an industrial undertaking to ensure, so far as is reasonably
practicable, the health and safety at work of all persons employed by him at the industrial undertaking.” Contravention of such
duty is an offence and is liable to a fine of HK$3,000,000 on summary conviction, and HK$10,000,000 on conviction on indictment. A proprietor
willfully contravene with the duty imposed by section 6A(1) without reasonable excuse commits an offence and is liable to a fine of HK$3,000,000
and to imprisonment for six months on summary conviction, and on conviction on indictment, to a fine of HK$10,000,000 and to imprisonment
for two years.

There are 30 sets
of subsidiary regulations under the FIUO, covering various aspects of hazardous work activities in various workplaces, containing detailed
health and safety standards on work situations, plant and machinery, processes and substances.

Factories and Industrial Undertakings
(Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations (Chapter 59J of the Laws of Hong Kong)

The Factories and
Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations lay down the