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Special

authority to inspect, cf. Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, s. 10.

By-laws.

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this Ordinance, every person whom he finds in any industrial undertaking to which the by-laws made under this Ordinance for the time being apply, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe has been within the preceding two months employed in any such industrial undertaking, and to require every such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he has been so examined;

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

(3) No person shall obstruct or delay the Protector or any Inspector in the exercise of any of his powers under this Ordinance.

(4) Every person who employs or has employed any woman, young person or child in an industrial undertaking and every agent and servant of any such employer shall on demand give to the Protector or to any Inspector all informa- tion in his possession with reference to such woman, young person or child and all information in his possession with reference to the labour conditions and treatment of every woman, young person or child employed by such employer.

(5) The Protector or any Inspector may remove and detain for inquiries in a place of refuge appointed under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to women, young persons or children any young person

or child whom he finds in any place in or in respect of which he has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed.

(6) The powers conferred by this Ordinance on the Protector and Inspectors shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any other powers which they may possess.

4. Any select committee of the Urban Council, any health officer, any European Fire Brigade officer with the written authority of the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade and any officer specially authorised by the Protector and subject to such directions as he may impose, may at any time enter and inspect any factory or workshop for the purpose of ascertaining whether the requirements of this Ordinance or of any by-law made thereunder are complied with, and the proprietor of every factory and workshop shall furnish the means required for such entry and inspection.

5.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Urban Council to make by-laws in respect of industrial undertakings for the following purposes :-

(a) declaring trades, processes and occupations to be dangerous trades for the purposes of this Ordinance;

(b) prohibiting the employment of or modifying or limit- ing the employment of all persons or any class of persons in dangerous trades;

(c) prohibiting the employment of or modifying or limiting the employment of women, young persons and children in industrial undertakings, and requiring registers to be kept of women, young persons and children employed in industrial undertakings.