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C.S.O.

726

[No. 20-28.6.32.-8.]

Short title.

Definitions.

10 & 11 Geo. 5, c, 65, Schedule.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to Factories and Workshops and to the employment of Women, Young Persons and Children in certain industries.

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 Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932.

2. In this Ordinance,-

(1) "Child" means a person under the age of 16 years.

(2) "Factory" means any premises or place wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place.

(3) "Dangerous trade" means any trade or occupation whatsoever which is declared by regulation made under this Ordinance to be a dangerous trade.

(4) "Industrial undertaking" includes:-

(a) factories and workshops;

(b) mines, quarries and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;

(c) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleansed, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transform- ed, including shipbuilding, and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity and motive power of any kind;

(d) construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition, of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork, waterwork, or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure;

(e) transport of passengers or goods by road or rail, or inland waterway, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, and warehouses, and the carriage of coal and building material and debris;

but does not include any agricultural operation.

(5) "Inspector" means any person appointed by the Governor to be an Inspector or Assistant Inspector of Labour, Factories and Workshops for the purposes of this Ordinance.

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