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Speech given by the Honourabla
R.M. Hetherington. D.F.C.,
Commissioner of Labour, at the
meeting of the Legislative Council
on 28th June, 1967
D.
103
Sir,
I move the first reading of a bill to amend section 7
of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance,
2.
The object of this enabling bill is quite simple.
It is to amend section 7 of the principal ordinance.
Section 7,
as it standa at present, authorizes me to make general regulations
on a wide range of subjects including the employment of women and
young persons. I am advised that it does not empower me to make
regulations imposing special conditions in respect of such
employment in particular industrial undertakings or in particular
classes or descriptions of industrial undertakings.
For reasons
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which I will mention shortly, I seek to obtain such powers through
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the enactment of the amending bill now before Council.
3.
I would like to take the opportunity of removing any
doubts, which may have arisen since the bill was published in the
Government Gazette for general information, about the statutory
procedure regarding all regulations which I may make under section
7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. Section
7 (3) prescribes that all regulations made by the Commissioner of
Labour shall be submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to
the approval of the Legislative Council. This procedure has, of
course, been followed in the past and all existing regulations
have been approved, by resolution, by this Council. The same
procedure would also be followed in the future with regard to any
special regulations which I might make if the ordinance is amended
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as proposed.
4.
The reason for this bill is more complex. The existing
regulations impose statutory limitations throughout all industrial
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