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work of engineering construction means the
‘onstruction of any railway line or siding, and the
construction, structural alteration or repair (including
re-pointing and re-painting) or the demolition of any
dock, harbour, inland navigation, tunnel, bridge,
viaduct, waterworks, reservoir, pipe-line, aqueduct,
sewer, sewage works, gasholder, oil tank, road, trace or
footpath ;

“young person means a person who has attained
the age of fourteen and has not attained the age of
eighteen years.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, machinery
or plant shall be deemed to have been constructed or
re-constructed before the passing of this Ordinance or the
making of regulations or orders under this Ordinance, and
a factory or building shall be deemed to have been con-
structed, re-constructed, extended, added to, or converted
for use as a factory, before the passing or commencement
of this Ordinance or the coming into operation of any
provision of this Ordinance, if the construction, re-
construction, extension, addition, or conversion was begun
before the passing or commencement of this Ordinance, or
the making of regulations or orders under this Ordinance,
or the coming into operation of any provision of this
Ordinance, as the case may be.

(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a factory
shall not be deemed to be a factory in which mechanical
power is used by reason only that mechanical power is
used for the purpose of ventilating or lighting the work-
rooms or other parts of the factory.

(4) A woman, young person, or child who works in
a factory, whether for wages or not, either in a process
or in cleaning any part of the factory used for any process,
or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery or plant,
or in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or
connected with the process, or connected with the article
made or otherwise the subject of the process therein, shall,
save as is otherwise provided by this Ordinance or any
regulations or orders made thereunder, be deemed to be
employed therein for the purposes of this Ordinance or
of any proceedings thereunder: Provided that any woman

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