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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.
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 the Factories and Industrial Undertakings
Ordinance to deal with safety at work.
It
As part of the exercise to provide for the
objects outlined above, clauses 4 and 5 of this Bill
amend the Factories and Industrial Undertakings
Ordinance and Regulations to remove the provisions
therein relating the general conditions of employment
of women and young persons, most of which are contained
in Part II of those regulations. It is proposed to
replace these provisions by similar regulations to be
made under the Employment Ordinance.
Opportunity is taken in clause 2 to remove
the references to the employment of children in section
2(3) and (4) of the principal Ordinance; and in clause
4 to delete section 7(2A) which refers to the employment
of women and young persons. These matters will be now
dealt with under the Employment Ordinance.