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made under the Factories and Industrial

Undertakings Ordinance.

In recent years we have been making very

rapid progress in widening the scope of our

labour legislation both in the social and

fields. The Commissioner will be proposing a further

smaller but useful package for this session along

the Tines I have indicated. But it has become

apparent that the pace of legislation isxxx had

outrun the administrative and enforcement capacity of

the dd department. The staff of the department are of

high calibre, but there are too few of them. It is

therefore important that in the coming year the

department should have time to consolidate and build

For instance it is expected to

up its resources.

double its enforcement staff. I also feel that

industry itself needs time to absorb and learn to live

with the new legislation.

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