{"id":164701,"date":"2026-03-29T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=164701"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:12:22","slug":"ground-rules-laid-down-on-cigarette-butts-for-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=164701","title":{"rendered":"Ground rules laid down on cigarette butts for firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1849142_1_M_20260328111143.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Charges may be levelled against contractors if cigarette butts are found around construction and major renovation sites during inspections proposed under imminent regulatory changes implementing a complete smoking ban following the tragic Wang Fuk Court fire, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said. <\/p>\n<p>He was speaking after the government submitted amendments to the Legislative Council this week that designate construction sites and buildings undergoing major renovations &ndash; including areas near scaffolding and external walls &ndash; as no-smoking zones and implement a fixed fine of HK$3,000 for general violations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1849142-20260328.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charges may be levelled against contractors if cigarett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}