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CAP. 57]
Women and Young Persons (Industry) Regulations
[1988 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Register of women and young persons employed in industrial undertaking
16. (1) Every employer of women or young persons in an industrial undertaking shall maintain or cause to be maintained therein a register in accordance with this regulation:
Provided that the Commissioner may exempt any such employer from keeping the whole or part of such a register if all women and young persons employed in the industrial undertaking rest on the same day.
(2) The register shall in respect of every woman or young person employed in the industrial undertaking-
(a) specify his or her name; (L.N. 41/88)
(b) specify the number of his or her identity card, if any, issued under the Registration of Persons Ordinance (Cap. 177);
(c) specify his or her date of birth;
(d) [Repealed, L.N. 41/88]
(e) specify the date on which he or she first commenced to work in the industrial undertaking;
(f) specify the period of employment of the woman or young person for each day of the week as fixed by the notice posted up under regulation 9(1);
(g) specify the intervals allowed for meals and rest for the woman or young person as fixed by the notice posted up under regulation 9(1);
(h) specify his or her rest day; and
(i) specify the nature of his or her employment, the section or part of the industrial undertaking in which he or she is employed and (where applicable) the shift on which he or she is required to work, (L.N. 41/88)
and shall also specify such particulars as may be prescribed under regulation 17, being particulars required in order to assist the Commissioner to ascertain whether or not the provisions of regulation 8, 9, 10, 11 or 14 are being or have been complied with.
(3) At the request of any woman or young person employed in an industrial undertaking, the employer shall produce for inspection by that woman or young person the entry in the register specifying his or her rest day.
Form of notices and registers
17. For the purposes of regulations 9, 10, 15 and 16, the Commissioner may prescribe by notification in the Gazette the form in which notices must be posted up, given or served or registers kept.
Penalty for contravention of regulation 4 or 5
18. Any person who contravenes regulation 4 or 5 commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $20,000.
(24 of 1988, s. 5)
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