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No. S. 40.--The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 25th February, 1927:-

C.S.O. 1295/24

[No. 16--14.1.27.-2.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide against accidents in

factories.

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 Short title. (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.

Interpreta- tion.

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

and their

powers.

(2) Every Inspector and Assistant Inspector of Fac- 1 Edw. 7, c. 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 :

22, s. 119.

(d) power to make such examination and enquiry Inspectors

as may be necessary to ascertain whether the and their 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- nance for the time being apply, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe to have been within the preceding two months employed in any such factory, and to require every such person to be so examined and to sign a decla- ration of the truth of the matters respecting which he has been so examined:

(f) any other powers which may be conferred by any regulation made under this. Ordinance and any other powers which may be necessary for carrying this Ordinance into effect.

powers.