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or operations are only carried on or performed for the
immediate purpose of working an electric motor or working
any apparatus which consumes electrical energy for
lighting, heating, transmitting or receiving messages or
communications, or other purposes.

(5) For the purposes of the definition in section 2
of this Ordinance of the expression ‘‘ factory "’, electrical
energy shall not be deemed to be an article, but save as
aforesaid nothing in this section shall affect the application
of this Ordinance to factories within the meaning of that
definition.

Institutions.

46. (1) Where, in any premises forming part of an
institution carried on for charitable or reformatory purposes
any manual labour is exercised in or incidental to the
making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, washing,
cleaning, or adapting for sale, of articles not intended for the
use of the institution, but the premises do not constitute
a factory, then, nevertheless, the provisions of this Ordinance
and any regulations or orders made thereunder shall,
subject as hereinafter in this section provided, apply to those
premises.

(2) If in any such institution to which this Ordinance
applies the persons having the control of the institution
(hereinafter referred to as the managers) satisfy the
Governor that the only persons working therein are persons
who are inmates of and supported by the institution, or
persons engaged in the supervision of the work or the
management of machinery, and that such work as aforesaid
is carried on in good faith for the purposes of the support,
education, training, or reformation of persons engaged
in it, the Governor may by order direct that so long as
the order is in force this Ordinance shall apply to the
institution subject to the following modifications :—-

(a) the managers may submit for the approval of
the Governor a scheme for the regulation of the hours
of employment, intervals for meals, and holidays of
the inmates, and if the Governor is satisfied that the
provisions of the scheme are not less favourable to the
inmates than the corresponding provisions of regula-
tions made under this Ordinance, the Governor may

 

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