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Ordinance. That section disapplies Part IV of the .

Ordinance (which deals with rest days) in relation to the

employment of women and young persons in industrial

undertakings and to whom the Factories and Industrial

Undertakings Regulations apply. It is proposed to replace

those regulations by regulations made under section 73 of

the Employment Ordinance.

Clause 6 extends the powers given under section

72 of the Ordinance relating to the entry and inspection

(and related matters) of places of employment by public

officers authorized to do so by the Commissioner for

Labour. These powers are similar to those contained in

section 4 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings

Ordinance.

Clause 7 brings into the Employment Ordinance

provisions corresponding to those contained in sections

5, 6 and 16 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings

Ordinance. These, respectively, deal with, the non-

disclosure by public officers of the origin of complaints

against employers in respect of contraventions of the

Ordinance; the non-termination by an employer of the

employment of his employee by reason of the employee

giving evidence in proceedings for the enforcement of the

Ordinance; and presumptions relating to the ages of young

persons and children working in places of employment.

Clause 8 amends section 73(1) of the principal Ordinance to enable regulations to be made, firstly to

empower the Commissioner for Labour to make, in respect of