Aderdiment of pection 73.
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and who was employed in the place of employment on the day on which the offence is alleged to have been committed was employed therein on that day by such employer.".
Section 73(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after paragraph (4), the following
"(ha) providing that, where the Commissioner is satisfied that work in any industrial undertaking within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, or class or description thereof is subject to seasonal or other special pressure, he may by order published in the Gazette as respects any such industrial undertaking, or class or description thereof, increase for any employes during any period of such pressure the hours of work, period of employment or hours of overtime employment specified in relation to that employee in regulations made under this Ordinance for a period in any year not exceeding that specified in the order;
(46) providing that-
(0) any document purporting to be a copy of any document or optice and purporting to be signed by a person or his duly authorized agent shall be admitted in evidence in proceedings before any court or magistrate on its production by a public officer without further proof; and
(i) until the contrary is proved, the court or magistrate before which such document is produced shall presume that the docu ment is a true copy and that it is signed by that person or his duly authorized agent; and
(i) the document shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein;
(he) providing that any person who works in any place of employment at any kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process, trade or business for which the place of employment is used shall, wave as may be provided otherwise in the regulations, be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of any regulations made under this Ordinance or of any proceedings thereunder;".
9. Any-
(a) exemption, permission, authority, approval or allowance granted,
given or made; or
(6) nolice posted at any place; or
(c) Dotice served or given; or
(d) register kept,
in accordance with any of the provisions of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, whether or not repealed, revoked or deleted by the Factorica and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Ordinance 1980, and relating to the employment of women or young persons, and in force at the commencement of this Ordinance shall, so far as it is not incon- sistent with this Ordinance, continue to be in force and have the like effect for all purposes st if made in accordance with the corresponding provisions of this Ordinance.
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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 12th day of March
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a trug and correctly printed copy of the said bi.
Clerk
the Legislative Godncil.
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