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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 19, 1932.
Presump- tions.
Consent.
Repeals.
Commence- ment.
9. In any prosecution under this Ordinance,-
(1) If it appears to the magistrate that any person who is alleged in the charge to have been a young person or child at the date of the alleged offence was a young person or child at the said date, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that such person was a young person or child at the said date;
(2) if it appears to the magistrate that any young person or child, who is alleged in the charge to have been under any particular age at the date of the alleged offence, was under that particular age at the said date, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the said young person or child was under the said age at the said date.
10. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced without the consent of the Protector.
11. Ordinances No. 22 of 1922, No. 3 of 1927 and No. 24 of 1929 together with all regulations made under those Ordinances are repealed
12. This Ordinance shall come into operation upon such date as may be fixed by Proclamation of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this. 18th day of August, 1932.
H. R. BUTTERS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE.
[s. 4.]
A.-Regulations governing the employment of women, young persons: and children in industrial undertakings.
1. The following are declared to be dangerous trades:—
Boiler chipping.
Fireworks, the manufacture of.
Glass working.
Lead processes.
Vermilion manufacture
2. No person shall employ any child in any dangerous trade.
3. No person shall employ any female young person or woman in any dangerous trade without the written permission of the Protector.
4. No person shall employ any child under the age of 12 years in any industrial undertaking.
5.-(1) The proprietor and the manager of every industrial under- taking in which children are employed shall cause to be kept in English or Chinese a running record of all the children at any time employed in such industrial undertaking.