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Explanatory Memorandum

The main objects of this Bill are to provide

in the Employment Ordinance for powers of entry into places

of employment in order to ascertain whether the requirements

of the Ordinance are complied with and to enable regulations

to be made under the Ordinance to prohibit or control the

employment of persons generally.

Should the Bill pass into law, it is intended,

as a first step, to make regulations for the employment

of children designed to supplement the provisions of the

Education Ordinance (Cap. 279) which enable attendance

orders to be made requiring parents to cause their children

to attend at school.

For consistency with the Education Ordinance, the

Bill amends section 2 of the Employment Ordinance by inserting

a definition of "child", and consequentially amends the

definition therein of "young person". Up to 31 August 1980,

"child" will mean a person under 14 years and, after that

date, a person under 15 years of age; and up to the same

date, "young person" will mean a person between 14 and 18

years and after that, a person between 15 and 18 years of

age. Consequential and related amendments are made to

the Employment of Young Persons and Children at Sea

Ordinance (Chapter 58), the Factories and Industrial

Undertakings Ordinance (Chapter 59), the Factories and

Industrial Undertakings Regulations and the Protection

of Women and Juveniles Ordinance (Chapter 213).

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