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Explanatory Memorandum
The main objects of this Bill are to provide
in the Employment Ordinance for powers of entry into places
of employment in order to ascertain whether the requirements
of the Ordinance are complied with and to enable regulations
to be made under the Ordinance to prohibit or control the
employment of persons generally.
Should the Bill pass into law, it is intended,
as a first step, to make regulations for the employment
of children designed to supplement the provisions of the
Education Ordinance (Cap. 279) which enable attendance
orders to be made requiring parents to cause their children
to attend at school.
For consistency with the Education Ordinance, the
Bill amends section 2 of the Employment Ordinance by inserting
a definition of "child", and consequentially amends the
definition therein of "young person". Up to 31 August 1980,
"child" will mean a person under 14 years and, after that
date, a person under 15 years of age; and up to the same
date, "young person" will mean a person between 14 and 18
years and after that, a person between 15 and 18 years of
age. Consequential and related amendments are made to
the Employment of Young Persons and Children at Sea
Ordinance (Chapter 58), the Factories and Industrial
Undertakings Ordinance (Chapter 59), the Factories and
Industrial Undertakings Regulations and the Protection
of Women and Juveniles Ordinance (Chapter 213).
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