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Presumptions.
Penalties.
Consent.
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No. 22 of 1922. INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT
OF CHILDREN.
5. In any prosecution under this Ordinance-
(1) if it appears to the magistrate that any person who is alleged in the charge to have been a child at the date of the alleged offence was a child at such date, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that such person was a child at such date:
(2) if it appears to the magistrate that any child, who is alleged in the charge to have been under any particular age at the date of the alleged offence, was under that particular age at the said date, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the said child was under the said age at the said date.
6. Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
7. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be com- menced without the consent of the Protector.
[s. 8, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS,
1. The following are declared to be dangerous trades:-
Boiler chipping.
Fireworks, the manufacture of.
Glass making.
2. No person shail employ any child in any dangerous trade.
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3. No person shall employ any child under the age of ten years in any factory.
4. No person shall employ any child under the age of twelve years in carrying coal or building material or debris.
* As amended by Law Rov, Ord., 1924.
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.
No. 22 of 1922.
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5-(1) The owner and the manager of every factory in which children are employed shall cause to be kept, in English or Chinese, a running record of all the children at any time employed in such factory.
(2) Such record shall contain the following particulars :-
(a) name of factory:
(b) address of factory;
(e) name of employer or employers :
(d) name of manager of factory;
(e) name of child :
(/) sex of child :
(7) date of birth of child, or, if date cannot be ascertained, estimated age
on some given date :
(4) address of child :
(i) name of parent or guardian ;
(j) nature of employment:
(k) actual hours of work for every day on which the child is employed. (3) Every such record shall be entered up promptly and accurately.
6. No child shall be allowed to work in any industrial undertaking for more than nine hours in any period of twenty-four hours.
7. No child shall be allowed to work in any industrial undertaking for more than five hours continuously,
8. In any industrial undertaking the interval of relaxation between any spell of five hours contiuuons work and the next spell of work shall be not less than one hour, and the interval of relaxation after any spell of work of less than five hours duration shall be of reasonable duration having regard to all the circumstances.
9. Every child employed in any industrial undertaking shall be allowed one day's rest in every seven days.
10. No child shall be employed in any industrial undertaking between 7 p.m. and 7 a..
11. No child shall be allowed to carry any weight which is unreasonably heavy having regard to the child's age and physical development, and no child whatever shall be allowed to carry any load exceeding forty catties in weight.
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