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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
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EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT BILL 1980 FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1980
WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS (INDUSTRY)
REGULATIONS 1980
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN (AMENDMENT)
REGULATIONS 1980
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Introduction
The scope and purposes of the Employment Ordinance (Chapter 57) are, inter alia, to regulate general conditions of employment. However, the general conditions of employment of women and young persons are at present governed by regulations made under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Chapter 59). It is considered desirable to rationalise the position so that the Employment Ordinance will deal with all measures of a social nature relating to employment leaving Chapter 59 to deal with safety at work.
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The proposed amendments to the Employment Ordinance are mainly in the nature of enabling provisions to permit the effective enforce- ment of the Ordinance and Regulations made thereunder. The proposed amendments to the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance are consequential amendments made mainly as a result of the transfer of the provisions in the existing Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations, governing the conditions of work for women and young persons, to the Employment Ordinance. The more important amendments are explained below.
A Employment (Amendment) Bill 1980 (Annex A)
Authorisation and powers of Public Officers
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Before the enactment of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provi- sions) Ordinance 1979 on 19th July 1979, public officers had no powers of entry into premises for the purpose of inspection, and enforcement of the Employment Ordinance was by complaint only. With the enactment of that Ordinance the Commissioner for Labour is empowered, under section 72 of the Employment Ordinance, to authorise public officers to enter, inspect and examine premises in which persons are employed. These powers are now further extended by clause 6 of the Employment (Amendment) Bill 1980, to bring them into line with the similar provisions in section 4(1) of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.
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