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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 Consent.
commenced without the consent of the Protector.
11. Ordinances No. 22 of 1922, No. 3 of 1927 and Repeals. No. 24 of 1929 together with all regulations made under those Ordinances are repealed
12. This Ordinance shall come into operation upon date as may be fixed by Proclamation of the Governor.
such Commence-
ment.
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.
(2) Such record shall contain the following particulars :-
(a) name of industrial undertaking;
(b) address of same;
(c) name of employer or employers;
(d) name of manager;
(e) name of child;
(f) sex of child;
(g) date of birth of child, or, if date cannot be ascertained,
estimated age on some given date;
(h) address of child;
(i) name of parent or guardian;
() nature of employment;
(k) actual hours of work for every day on which the child
is employed;
(3) Every such record shall be entered up promptly and accurately.