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Amendracol of Becaboo 3.

Amendment qd

Rom 4.

Antadmeat of

decoda preparā

sub. g.)

Amendment of Cos. 36.

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(b) in subsection (1) by deleting "None" and substituting the

following-

“Subject to subsection (4), none”; and

(c) by inserting after subsection (3) The following subsection—

4(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3Xα) reguladons mude under section 701X6) may prohibit the employment of children in industrial undertakings which are not carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain.",

Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting “labour officers (industrial undertakings), senior Industrial health officers, industrial health officers, assistant industrial health officers" and sub stituting the following-

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"senior industrial health officers, industrial "health officers, Assistant industrial health officers, industrial hygienists, a chief factory inspector".

4 Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (1)-

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(1) by inserting after "appointed under section 3," the following---

"any industrial hygienist":

(ii) by deleting paragraph (8); and

(b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following new subsections—

"(ZA) An officer exercising any powel conferred on him by subsection (1) may take with him any person, whelber a public officer or not, whom he may reasonably need to assist him in carrying out his duties under this "Ordinance and in particular may, for his assistance, take persons who bave been engaged by the Commissioner for Labour, on account of their special expertise, to advise the Commissioner on the safely and health of persons employed in industrial undertakings.

(28) A person who accompanies an officer pursuant to subsection (2A)

(a) may give to the officer such assistance in the exercise of any power conferred on him by sub- section (1) as the officer may reasonably require:

(b) shall be deemed to be a public officer for the

purposes of sections 5 and 6.".

5. The Factories and lodustrial Undertakings Regulations are amended by revoking regulation 4 and replacing it with the following-

**Employm

of children,

(Cap. 179.)

4. (1) No person shall employ a child in an industrial

undertaking

(2) Notwithstanding section 2(3H) of the Ordinance, the prohibition in paragraph (1) extends to an industrial undertaking (other than a registered school under the Education Ordinance) which is not carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain.”,

ಕ. Section 2(1) of the Boilers and Pressure Receivers Ordinance is amended-

(a) in the definition of "factory inspector" by inserting after

"Ordinance as" the following—

"a chief factory_inspector,"'; and

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(8) in the definition of “labour officer" by deleting ", an assistant labour officer or a labour officer (indústrial undertakings)" and substituting the following-

"or an assistant labour officer".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 21st day of December 1977.

Pia

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 true and correctly printed copy of the said bHL

Аса

Clerk to the Legislative Council,