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3.Review related legislations, ordinance, codes of practice and guidelines A working group was set up in 2017 under SWD, the Elderly Commission and Rehabilitation Advisory Committee includes scholars, service users, elderly carers, representatives from relevant organizations to give suggestions and recommendations to amend the RCHE legislations ...
Officially, the DVDs in Hong Kong are region 3 in NTSC colour-coding. DVDs of region 1 (US, NTSC format) or region 2 (Europe, PAL format) can be also found in local shops like HMV, which is not an issue for the local market as DVD players commonly sold in the shops are multi-region. Just as other Asian countries, VCDs are common for rental and ...
To improve building energy efficiency, the Hong Kong Government formulated a Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance (建築物能源效益條例) [2] which was passed by the Legislative Council in November 2010. Under the Ordinance, certain prescribed types of buildings have to comply with Building Energy Code (BEC) and/or Energy Audit Code (EAC).
A code of practice can be a document that complements occupational health and safety laws and regulations to provide detailed practical guidance on how to comply with legal obligations, and should be followed unless another solution with the same or better health and safety standard is in place, [1] or may be a document for the same purpose ...
Healthcare in Hong Kong. Hong Kong 's medical infrastructure consists of a mixed medical economy, with 12 private hospitals and 43 public hospitals. [1] [2] Hong Kong has high standards of medical practice. It has contributed to the development of liver transplantation, being the first in the world to carry out an adult to adult live donor ...
Judicial review in Hong Kong is conducted according to the Constitutional and Administrative Law List (Practice Direction 26.1). It comprises two different aspects: firstly, judicial review of domestic ordinances as to their compatibility with the Basic Law ("constitutional review"); secondly, judicial review of administrative decisions under administrative law ("administrative review").
Since the handover in 1997, the constitutional framework is provided by the Hong Kong Basic Law, which is a piece of National Law of the People's Republic of China and has, practically, constitutional status in Hong Kong. The principle of ‘ one country, two systems ’ was enshrined in Article 5 of the Basic Law until at least 2047, which ...
The Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staff ( Chinese: 香港護士協會) is one of the largest medical unions in Hong Kong. [9] The AHKNS was founded in 1977 and adopted its present name in 2007. According to its statistics, the AHKNS is the largest nursing union in Hong Kong, representing more than 60% of the city's nurses. [10]