CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12] — Page 254

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regulations are taken from the recommendations of the Com- mission, the ages given in the Report being converted into English rekkoning by the deduction of one year from the age as given in Chinese reckoning. Chinese ages advance by

one year at each Chinese New years' Day, and not at the birth-

Thus a child born on the last day of a year would

day.

be described on the following day as two years of age.

Chinese reckoning is therefore sometimes rather artificial.

The definition of factory is adapted from section 149 of the

Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 1 Edw. 7, c.22. The defi-

nition of industrial undertaking is adapted from Article 1

of the Schedule to the Employment of Women, Young Persons

and Children Act, 1920.

Paragraph (d) of the latter defi-

nition expressly includes the carriage of coal and building

material and débris, because that is one of the occupatione

which it is particularly desired to regulate.

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5.

Section 3 gives a wide power of making regulations.

Section 4 gives a power of search and powers for the

purpose of making enquiries.

6. Section 5 is intended to dispense with strict proof

of age.

as such proof is often very difficult to obtain.

7.

Section 6 is the usual penalty section.

8.

Section 7 provides that no prosecution unter the Ordi-

nance is to be commenced without the consent of the Protector]

9.

Section 8 postpones the commencement of the Ordinance

until the 1st January, 1923. This is in order to give

time for the machinery to be prepared.

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