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Draft Bills.

No. S. 395.-The following bills are published for general information.

S.O. 4861/27.

[No. 30-24.9.29.-1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 22 of 1922, long title.

Amendment

An Ordinance to amend the Industrial Employ-

ment of Children Ordinance, 1922.

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 Industrial Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. The long title of the Industrial Employment of Children Ordinance, 1922, hereinafter called the prin- cipal Ordinance, is amended so as to read, "An. Ordi- nance to regulate the employment of women, young persons and children in certain industries ".

3. Section 1 of the principal Ordinance is amended of Ordinance by the insertion of the words Women, Young Persons

and" immediately before the word "Children ".

No. 22 of

1922, s. 1.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1922, s. 2.

Amendment

4. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended as follows:---

(a) by the deletion of the word "juvenile" in

paragraph (e);

(b) by the deletion of the word "Juvenile" in

paragraph ();

(e) by the addition of the following paragraph

immediately after paragraph (ƒ) :-

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(g) "Young person means a person of or over the age of fifteen years and under the age of eighteen years.

5. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended

of Ordinance as follows:-

No. 22 of

1922, s. 3.

Amendment

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(a) by the insertion of the words young persons

immediately before the word

or

in sub-section (1) (b);

children

(b) by the insertion of the words women, young persons or" immediately before the word children" in sub-section (1) (c) and (1) (d).

6. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended

of Ordinance as follows:-

No. 22 of 1922, s. 4.

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(a) by the insertion of the words woman, young person, or immediately before the word 'child" in the fourth line of sub-section (1), and in the first and fifth lines of sub-section (2);

(b) by the insertion of the words

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women, young

persons or immediately before the word

children" in sub-section (2) ;