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5. In each case the father is penalised for something he is not responsible for and naturally he objects.
6. This amending Ordinance amends section 11 of the principal Ordinance by reducing the certificate fee to one dollar and by abolishing the entry fee where the former is issued or where the latter is made within forty-two days of the birth of the child.
EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AND CHILDREN AT SEA ORDINANCE,, 1932.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to regulate the employment of Young Persons and Children at Sea." He said. This Bill as explained in the memorandum carries out an International Convention.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
1. On the 9th July, 1920, a general conference of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations adopted a Convention fixing fourteen years as the minimum age for admission of children to employment at sea, except in school ships and training ships and in vessels upon which only members of the same family are employed, and requiring shipmasters to keep a register of all persons under sixteen years of age.
2. Under Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles it is necessary to apply the Convention to the Colony subject to such modifications as may be necessary to adapt the Convention to local conditions.
3. Section 2 gives effect to Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention, with a proviso relating to native vessels similar to one enacted or contemplated in East African Dependencies.
4. Section 3 gives effect to Article 4 of the Convention.
5. Section 4 adopts the definition of "vessel" given in Article
1 of the Convention.
6. Section 5 provides the penalties and section 6 is the suspending clause usual in the case of an Ordinance relating to Merchant Shipping.
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