Officers to produce certificates when

required,

person shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and, if any person makes, or causes to be made, or knowingly allows to be made any wages sheet, or record of wages, or record of payments, or any list of outworkers which is false in any material particular, or produces or causes to be produced, or knowingly allows to be produced any such sheet, record or list to any officer acting in the exercise of the powers given by this section, knowing the same to be false, or furnishes any information to any such officer knowing the same to be false, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

11. Every officer of any Government Department for the time being assisting in carrying this Ordinance into effect, shall be furnished by the Labour Officer with a certificate of his appointment, and when acting under any or exercising any 9 Edw. 4. power conferred upon him by this Ordinance, shall, if so required, produce the said certificate to any person or persons affected.

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12. Any such officer may although not a barrister or proceedings. solicitor prosecute or conduct before a court of summary

Edw. 7, 4. jurisdiction any proceedings arising under this Ordinance. 2 L. 17 (3).

Labour Officer's consent to prosecution

Repeal of Ordinance No. 38 of 1032.

13. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be com- menced without the consent of the Labour Offiéer.

14. The Minimum Wage Ordinance, 1932, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 20th day of June, 1910.

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