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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 1, 1927.

HONG KONG.

No. 3 of 1927.

I assent.

L.S.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

1st April, 1927.

An Ordinance to provide against accidents in

factories.

[1st April, 1927.]

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Inspectors and their

powers.

1 Edw. 7, e. 22, s. 119.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Factory (Accidents) Ordinance, 1927.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) "Factory means any premises in which any machinery, other than machinery worked entirely by hand power, is used in any com- mercial undertaking.

(b) "Proprietor" includes a body corporate and

a firm.

3. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint Inspectors and Assistant Inspectors of Factories.

(2) Every Inspector and Assistant Inspector of Fac- tories shall have the following powers :-

(a) power to enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times, by day and night, any factory, and to enter by day any place which he has reasonable cause to believe may be a factory;

(b) power to take with him in any such case any person whom he may reasonably need in order to assist him in carrying out his duties under this Ordinance;

(c) power to require the production of any register or other document required to be kept under this Ordinance, and to inspect, examine and copy the same;

(d) power to make such examination and enquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the requirements of this Ordinance are being com- plied with;

(e) power to examine, either alone or in the pre- sence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Ordinance, every person whom he finds in any factory to which the regulations made under this Ordi-

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