### Child Care Services Regulations 《幼兒服務規例》

11. Permission required for training of child care workers
No centre shall provide courses of training for persons desiring to be child care workers except with the written permission of the Director.

12. Information to be given concerning the centre and children
The operator or supervisor shall submit to the Director such information concerning the centre or children therein as he may in writing require.
(L.N. 272 of 1997)

13. Non-resident children
(1) The Director may direct in writing that no children, other than resident children, shall be on centre premises during such periods as he may specify.
(2) No child to whom a direction under paragraph (1) applies shall be permitted to be on the centre premises at any time during any period specified by the Director in such direction.

14. Child care centre name and certificate of registration to be displayed
(1) At or near the entrance to the premises of every centre there shall be prominently displayed a board or other form of notice bearing in conspicuous lettering the name in which the centre is registered.
(2) No name except the name in which it is registered shall be used as being the name of the centre.
(3) The certificate of registration shall be displayed in a conspicuous place at the centre in respect of which it is issued.

15. Corporal punishment prohibited
No person shall administer corporal punishment to a child in a centre.

16. Operator to furnish plan of centre premises
The operator of a centre shall on demand supply the Director with a plan or diagram, with dimensions, of the centre premises.

17. Precautions for health and safety
In all centre premises, the design, the construction, the fire resistance of the elements of the structure and the properties of the materials, shall be such that the health and safety of the occupants, and in particular their safe escape in the event of fire, shall be reasonably assured.

18. Repair
All centre premises shall, to the satisfaction of the Director, be kept in a state of repair.

19. Maximum height of centres
No part of any centre premises, except the parapet wall around a roof playground, shall be situated at a height—
(a) in the case of a centre used for children under 2 years of age, of more than 12 m; or
(b) in any other case, of more than 24 m,
above ground level:
Provided that the Director, with the advice of the Director of Fire Services, may by notice in writing authorize that any part of such premises be situated at such greater height as may be specified in the notice.(L.N. 90 of 1980)

### Child Care Services Regulations 《幼兒服務規例》

20. Minimum height of parapets and window openings
The height of all parapets and window openings shall, unless such parapet or window opening is satisfactorily guarded by bars, be at least 1.1 m measured from the level of the floor immediately adjoining and, where such bars are installed in openings giving access to areas to be occupied by any children or employees, the bars shall be so installed as to be readily removable by the Fire Services in emergency.
(L.N. 61 of 1977)

21. Ventilation and lighting
(1) All centre premises shall be adequately ventilated and lighted.
(2) No cubicle or partition which obstructs the free passage of light or air shall be erected in any room in a centre.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), the ceiling of every room in the centre shall be not less than 2.5 m above the floor level of the room. (15 of 2005 s. 13)
(4) Where—
(a) a centre is wholly or partly situated in specified premises; and
(b) the premises are designed and constructed for the purposes of a child care centre,
the ceiling of every room in the centre shall be not less than 3 m above the floor level of the room. (15 of 2005 s. 13)
(5) Where—
(a) a centre is wholly or partly situated in specified premises; and
(b) the premises are not designed and constructed for the purposes of a child care centre,
the ceiling of every room in the centre shall be not less than 2.75 m above the floor level of the room. (15 of 2005 s. 13)
(6) In this regulation—
specified premises (指明處所) means premises—
(a) which were not used as a centre immediately before 1 September 2005; and
(b) in respect of which an application for registration as a centre or part of a centre is made on or after 1 September 2005, irrespective of whether the premises are to be used as a new centre, as an addition to an existing centre or as the new location of an existing centre. (15 of 2005 s. 13)

22. Structural alterations
Except with the consent in writing of the Director, there shall not be made—
(a) any structural alterations or additions to centre premises;
(b) any alteration to the toilet facilities or the sanitary arrangements of any centre or in the ventilation or lighting of a room therein;
(c) any subdivision of such a room.

### Child Care Services Regulations 《幼兒服務規例》

23. Periodic inspection of premises
(1) The operator of a centre shall, at intervals not exceeding 3 years, request an authorized person or such person as shall be specified by the Director for the purposes of this regulation to inspect the premises in order to determine whether the premises are in a sound structural condition. (L.N. 90 of 1980; L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 94 of 1986; L.N. 291 of 1993; L.N. 272 of 1997; 15 of 2005 s. 14)
(2) A person who carries out an inspection under paragraph (1) shall— (L.N. 90 of 1980; L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 94 of 1986; L.N. 291 of 1993; L.N. 272 of 1997; 15 of 2005 s. 14)
(a) deliver to the Director a report in writing on the structural condition of the premises; and
(b) cause a copy of such report to be served on the operator of the centre.