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arrange for the consolidation of those returns with any
other retums which any Government department is
empowered to call for from occupiers.

57. (1) No person employcd in a factory or in any other
place to which any provisions of this Ordinance apply
shall wilfully interfere with or misuse any means, appliance,
convenience or other thing provided in pursuance of this
Ordinance for securing the health, safety or welfare of the
persons employed in the factory or place, and where any
means or appliance for securing health or safety is provided
for the use of any such person under this Ordinance, he
shall use the means or appliance.

(2) No person employed in a factory or in any other
place to which any provisions of this Ordinance apply
shall wilfully and without reasonable cause do anything
likely to endanger himself or others.

(3) If any person employed in a factory or in any
other place to which any provisions of this Ordinance apply
wilfully and without reasonable cause neglects his duty
to the extent of endangering himself or others, he shall
be guilty of an offence.

58. Save as otherwise expressly provided under this
Ordinance, the occupier of a factory shall not, in respect
of anything to be done or provided by him in pursuance
of this Ordinance, make any deduction from the sum
contracted to be paid by him to any person employed,
or receive, or allow any person in his employment to
receive, any payment from any such person.

59. (1) Every Ordinance, regulation or order for the
time being in force relating to weights and measures or
weighing or measuring instruments shall extend to weights,
measures, and weighing or measuring instruments used in a
factory for the purpose of checking or ascertaining the
wages of any person employed therein, in like manner as
if they were used for trade.

(2) Every inspector or other person authorised
under the Ordinances, regulations or orders relating to
weights and measures or weighing or measuring instruments

Dutics of
persons
employed.

Prohibition
of deductions
from wages.

Weights,
measures
and weighing
and measur-
ing instru-
ments used
in
ascertaining
wages.