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The Bill also adds two new sections, 72 and 73
to the Employment Ordinance.
The new section 72 enables the Comuni ssioner
for Labour, or any public officer authorized by him in
writing for the purpose, to enter and inspect places of
employment. The section provides further that a premises
which is used for dwelling purposes shall not be so entered
except under a warrant issued by a magistrate where he is
satisfied by information or oath that there is reasonable
ground for suspecting that an offence against the Ordinance
has been or is being committed in the premises or that
there is evidence of such an offence therein.
The new section 73 empowers the Governor in Council to make regulations prohibiting or controlling
the employment of persons or any class of persons and
for matters connected therewith. Power is also given
to provide by regulations for the exemption of any
industry, occupation or trade from the operation of the Ordinance or any provision thereof; and to provide for
the non-application or modification of any of the provisions of the Ordinance in relation to any class of persons; and the Commissioner is empowered to exempt, subject to conditions, any person or class of persons from any of
the regulations.
The implementation of this Bill and the subsidiary legislation relating to the employment of children, when made, will entail gradual expansion of the Labour Department Inspectorate, the cost for which is estimated at about
$1 million for the remainder of 1979 and 1980, rising to
about $10 million per year in three years time.
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