A registered lift engineer convicted after trial over inspection documents and a safety certificate for a lift at Queen Mary Hospital was sentenced to 160 hours of community service. The Department of Justice has applied to review the sentence, the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department said.
The case concerned lift L-3 in Clinical Block 1. The first count concerned submitting documents he should have known were materially false or misleading: a safety certificate and an electric-lift inspection report. The second concerned issuing a safety certificate after inspecting the lift, despite knowing that the lift and its associated equipment or machinery were either not of good design and construction or not in a safe operating condition. He was convicted on both counts under the Lifts and Escalators Ordinance.
The sentence was imposed on September 23, 2026. The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department said the review application was made under section 104 of the Magistrates Ordinance and that the proceedings remained ongoing.
The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department said it temporarily suspended his lift-engineer registration in March 2025 during an earlier investigation. Following the conviction, it revoked his lift and escalator registrations, with the revocations taking effect on October 8. No escalator was involved in the hospital work; the department cited the offence’s implications for professional conduct and ethics.