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FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 59).

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1968.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Commis- sioner of Labour has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations 1968.

2. Regulation 41 of the principal regulations is revoked.

3. Regulation 42 is amended by deleting "39, 40 and 41" and substituting “39 and 40".

4. The principal regulations are amended by adding after regulation 42 the following new regulation-

"First aid equipament

in construc- tion sites,

5.

42A. In any building or engineering construction site which is not required to be registered under sub- section (1) of section 9 of the Ordinance there shall be provided and maintained an adequate supply of Örst sid equipment on a scale commensurate with the number of workers employed in the building or engineering construction site together with simple instructions for the use of such equipment.".

Regulation 46 is amended in paragraph (b) by deleting "41" and substituting “42A".

Made by the Commissioner of Labour on the 29th day of July 1968.

Cication.

Revocation of regulation 41.

Amendment of regulation 42.

Addition of new regulation 42A.

Amendment of regulation 46,

R. mars Lesteringtone

Commissioner of Labour.

Explanatory Note.

(This Nore is not part of the regulations bur is intended to indicate their general purport).

Under regulation 41 of the principal regulations an adequate supply of first aid equipment is required to be provided and maintained in a "registrable workplace". By regulation 42 the term "registrable work- place" is deemed to include a building or engineering construction site whether or not such site is registrable under section 9 of the Ordinance.