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(e) exempting any industrial undertaking from the operation
of this Ordinance or any part thereof;
() forms both in respect of registration and otherwise; (g) means of securing hygienic conditions;
(h) means of preventing accidents and of relieving persons
suffering from the effects of such accidents;
( means of securing the removal of any danger or defect; () requiring notifications to be made in relation to accidents
and such dangerous occurrences as may be specified in the regulations;
(k) precautions to be taken against fire and providing for
means of escape from fire;
(1) the taking for purposes of analysis of samples of materials
or substances used or handled;
(m) requiring notifications to be made in relation to the occurrence amongst persons who have been or are employed in industrial undertakings of such diseases as may be specified in such regulations;
(n) requiring the medical inspection by a Health Officer or by a medical practitioner employed by the proprietor of the industrial undertaking concerned of any person or of any class of persons employed in any industrial undertaking; (o) imposing duties on proprietors and persons employed; (P) generally carrying into effect the provisions of this
Ordinance.
(a) (a) Where the Commissioner of Labour is satisfied that any manufacture, machinery, plant, process or descrip- tion of manual labour, used in industrial undertakings is of such a nature as to cause risk of bodily injury to persons employed in connexion therewith, or any class of those persons, he may, without prejudice to the generality of the power to make regulations under sub- section (1), make such special regulations as appear to him to be reasonably practicable and to meet the necessity of the case and in particular such special regulations may--
(i) prohibit or control the employment of all persons or any class of persons in connexion with any manu- facture, machinery, plant, process, or description of manual labour; or
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(i) prohibit or control the use of any material or process;
and may impose duties on proprietors, employed persons and other persons.
(b) Special regulations so made may apply to all industrial undertakings in which the manufacture, machinery, plant, process, or description of manual labour is used or to any specified class or description of such undertaking, and may provide for the exemption of any specified class or description of undertaking either absolutely or subject to conditions.
(3) All regulations made by the Commissioner of Labour shall be submitted to the Governor, and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
(4) The Commissioner of Labour in such cases as he shall think fit may exempt any industrial undertaking from any regula- tion made under this Ordinance or may order the adoption of special precautions in addition to any precautions required by any regulation made under this Ordinance :
Provided that an appeal from any such exemption or order shall lie by way of petition to the Governor in Council whose decision shall be final,
(5) Regulations made under this section may provide that contravention of specified provisions of such regulations shall be an offence and may provide penalties therefor :
Provided that no penalty so provided shall exceed a fine of five thousand dollars.
6. The Governor in Council may by order amend the First Powers of Schedule and the Second Schedule.
Governor
in Council
to amend
First and Second Schedules.
T. (1) Every factory and mine and every premises or place Registra- in which a dangerous trade or scheduled trade is carried on shall tion. be registered annually at the office of the Commissioner of Labour.