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CAP. 57]

Employment

[1988 Ed.

(d) imposing duties and liabilities on employers and employees;

(e) defining the functions, duties and powers of public officers appointed

or authorized for the purposes of this Ordinance;

() exempting any industry, occupation or trade, or any class or part of any industry, occupation or trade, from the operation of this Ordinance or any provision thereof;

(g) providing that this Ordinance or any provision thereof shall not apply,

or may be modified, in relation to any class of persons;

(h) providing that the Governor may, by order, amend the Schedule to

any regulations made under this Ordinance;

(ha) providing that, where the Commissioner is satisfied that work in any industrial undertaking within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap. 59), or class or description thereof, is subject to seasonal or other special pressure, he may by order published in the Gazette as respects any such industrial under- taking, or class or description thereof, increase for any employee during any period of such pressure the hours of work, period of employment or hours of overtime employment specified in relation to that employee in regulations made under this Ordinance for a period in any year not exceeding that specified in the order; (Added, 10 of 1980, s. 8)

(hb) providing that---

(i) any document purporting to be a copy of any document or notice and purporting to be signed by a person or his duly authorized agent shall be admitted in evidence in proceedings before any court or magistrate on its production by a public officer without further proof; and

(ii) until the contrary is proved, the court or magistrate before which such document is produced shall presume that the document is a true copy and that it is signed by that person or his duly authorized agent; and

(iii) the document shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein; (Added, 10 of 1980, s. 8)

(he) providing that any person who works in any place of employment at any kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process, trade or business for which the place of employment is used shall, save as may be provided otherwise in the regulations, be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of any regulations made under this Ordinance or of any proceedings thereunder; (Added, 10 of 1980, s. 8)

(i) generally, carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) The Commissioner may in writing, in such cases as he thinks fit and for such period and subject to such conditions as he may specify, exempt any person or class of persons from any regulations made under this section.

(3) [Repealed, 24 of 1988, s. 2]

( Added, 55 of 1979, s. 2. Amended, 10 of 1980, s. 8)

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