{"id":173115,"date":"2026-07-17T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=173115"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:47","slug":"total-smoking-ban-at-construction-sites-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=173115","title":{"rendered":"Total smoking ban at construction sites approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1862376_1_M_20260715215625.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The Legislative Council has endorsed a complete smoking ban at construction sites, which takes effect on Friday &ndash; with no grace period.<\/p>\n<p>It carries a fixed penalty of HK$3,000 for anyone found smoking at construction sites, while contractors may face a fine of up to HK$400,000 if they fail to take all reasonable steps to make sure the sites are smoke-free&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1862376-20260715.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislative Council has endorsed a complete smoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173115","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}