980
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 8. 489.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 17th October, 1940:
[No. 28-26.9.40.-1.]
Short title.
Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 18
of 1937, ss. 8 (1) and (2).
Offences and penalties.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Factories and Workshops Ordin-
ance, 1937.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Factories and Workshops Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
2. Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 8 of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1937, are repealed and the follow- ing sub-sections are substituted therefor :-
8. (1) Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene or fails to comply with any provision of this Ordinance or of any by-law made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars: Provided that in the case of a continuing offence the magistrate, if satisfied that the offence has been knowingly and wilfully committed during a period exceeding ten days, may in addition to the said fine impose a further fine not exceeding fifty dollars per day in respect of each day of such excess.
(2) The proprietor of every factory, workshop or indus- trial undertaking in respect of which any offence against this Ordinance has been committed shall be guilty of a like offence.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is as follows:
8.-(1) Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene or fails to comply with any provision of this Ordinance or of any by-law made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(2) The proprietor of every factory, workshop or indus- trial undertaking in respect of which any offence against this Ordinance has been committed shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.