Enclosure No.
4
A BILL
To
Amend the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Short title and Undertakings (Amendment) Ordinance 1980 and shall come into operation commencement. on the day appointed for the commencement of the Employment (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1980.
2.
Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
Amendment of section 2.
(a) in subsection (3) by deleting "Subject to subsection (4), none" (Cap. 59.)
and substituting the following--
"None"; and
(b) by deleting subsection (4).
3.
Section 4(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended in para- Amendment of graph (h) by inserting, after "posting", the following-
section 4.
"up, in such place and manner and for such period as he may direct,”.
4. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsection (2A).
section 7.
5. The Factories and Industrial
Industrial Undertakings Regulations are Amendment of amended-
Factories and Industrial Undertakings
(a) in regulation 2, by deleting the definitions of "period of employ- Regulations.
ment", "week" and "working hours";
(Cap. 59, sub. leg.)
(b) by revoking regulation 3;
(c) by revoking Part II;
(d) by revoking regulation 43;
(e) in regulation 45(c), by deleting "9(1) or (3), 10, 11, 13A, 14,”;
(f) in regulation 46—
(i) in paragraph (a), by deleting "8, 15, 15A or"; and
(ii) in paragraph (b), by deleting “12(2), 13,"; and
(g) in regulation 47, by deleting paragraph (a).
Explanatory Memorandum
The scope and purposes of the Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57) is, inter alia, to regulate general conditions of employment. Regulations made under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap. 59) presently regulate the general conditions of employment of women and young persons. This leads to overlapping objectives between the two pieces of legislation. It is considered desirable to rationalize the position so that the Employment Ordinance will deal with all measures of a social nature relating to employment leaving the Factories and Industrial Under- takings Ordinance to deal with safety at work.