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periods of seasonal or other special pressure of work,

orders increasing the hours of employment prescribed in

any regulations made under that section in relation to

any employee for periods in any year not exceeding those

specified in the order; secondly to provide that certain

copies of documents shall be admitted in evidence before

any court without further proof, and shall be presumed

until the contrary is proved to be true copies and shall

be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein; and

thirdly to provide that a person who works in any place

of employment, whether for wages or not, at any form of

work whatsoever connected with the purposes for which such

a place is used shall be deemed to be employed therein

for the purposes of any regulations made under the

Ordinance or any proceedings thereunder.

Apart from clause 4, the remaining clauses

of the Bill are consequential upon the proposals outlined

above.

In clause 4 opportunity is taken to amend

section 50(3) in Part XII of the Ordinance (which concerns

employment agencies) by removing the exemption from that

Part of employment agencies solely dealing with the

employment of domestic servants. This is aimed at the

reduction of the exploitation by some of such agencies

of certain domestic servants of local or foreign origin.

The Bill has no financial or staffing

implications.