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Records to be kep by

employers.

Powers of enforcement.

(Cap. $9.)

(i) a valid travel document; (ii) a police warrant card;

(iii) a Vietnamese refugee card;

(iv) a certificate of exemption; or

(v) any other approved document,

held by him.

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprison- ment for 1 year.

17K. (1) Every employer shall keep at the place of employment of each of his employees a record of→

(a) the full name of the employee as shown in his identity card or other document by virtue of which he is lawfully employable; and

(b) the type of document held by the employee by virtue of which he is lawfully employable, and the number of that document.

(2) Every employer shall, where he employs more than 10 employees at any one place of employment, keep at that place the records of those employees in the form of a list of the names and particulars of those employees required under subsection (1).

(3) Every employer shall keep the record of each employee and every list required to be kept under sub- section (2)-

(a) up to date;

(b) in a form which is capable of being produced on

demand to a person authorized to inspect it; and

(c) in a form which is legible and capable of being readily understood by any person authorized to inspect it.

(4) In this section "place of employment", in relation to an employee who has no single place of employment, means his principal place of employment.

17L. (1) Every senior labour inspector and labour inspector appointed under section 3 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance shall, if in uniform or upon production of his authority if required, have authority to enter any premises or place where he has reasonable cause to believe that persons are in employment, other than such premises or place as are principally used for dwelling purposes, and—

(a) to call for, inspect and copy any record of em-

ployees; and

(b) to require an employee there to produce on demand for inspection any document which the employee is required by section 17C to have with him.

(2) Any immigration officer or immigration assistant and any police officer may, if in uniform or upon produc- tion of his authority if required, without prejudice to any other provision of this Ordinance or to any other law call for, inspect and copy any record of employees.