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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 251. The following Bill is published for general information :—

C.S.O. 4860/27.

[No. 21-17.8.37.-6.]

A BILL

Short title.

Interpreta. tion.

Ordinance

No. 15 of 1935,

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

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend 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, 1937.

2. In this Ordinance-

(1) "Child" means a person under the age of 14 years.

(2) "Dangerous trade" means any trade, process or occupation whatsoever declared by by-law made under this Ordinance to be a dangerous trade.

(3) "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.

(4) "Health officer" means a health officer under the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935.

(5) "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 transformed, 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;

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