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or child, and all information in his possession with reference to the labour conditions and treatment of any women, young persons or children employed by such employer.

(5) It shall be lawful for the Protector and for any Inspector, if he has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed, to remove and to detain for enquiries in a suitable place any young person or child found in any place in, about or in respect of, which such offence (if any) would appear to have been committed.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council Regula- to make regulations in respect of industrial undertakings for tions. the following purposes:-

(a) declaring what trades and occupations are to be deemed to be dangerous trades for the purposes of this Ordinance.;

(b) prescribing the ages under which young persons and children shall not be employed in particular trades or occupations;

(c) prescribing the conditions under and the hours within which women, young persons and children may be employed in industrial undertakings,

(d) imposing obligations (including obligations imposed with a view to the promotion of hygiene) upon persons who employ women, young persons or children in industrial undertakings and on the servants of such persons;

(e) defining the duties and powers of the Protector and the Inspectors;

(f) exempting any industrial undertaking from the operation of this Ordinance or any part thereof;

(g) prescribing the forms to be used in carrying out this Ordinance both in respect of registration and otherwise;

(h) prescribing means of securing hygienic conditions in factories and workshops;

(i) prescribing means of preventing accidents in factories and workshops, and of relieving persons suffering from the effects of such accidents;

) requiring notifications to be made in relation to accidents occuring in factories and workshops;

(k) generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

(3) The regulations in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance, and shall be in force

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