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. neral
application.



Applications
to factories
belonging to
Government.


 Factories. 1955.

 work of engineering construction" means the construction,
 structural alteration or repair (including re-pointing and
 re-painting) or the demolition of any dock, harbour, tunnel,
 bridge, viaduct, waterworks, reservoir, pipeline, aqueduct,
 sewer, sewage works, or gasholder,and shall include such
 other works as may be specified by regulations of the
 Governor;
 young person means a person who has attained the age of
 fourteen and has not attained the age of eighteen.
 (2) 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 herein, shall, save as is otherwise provided by this
 Ordinance, be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of
 this Ordinance or of any proceedings thereunder.
 (3) A young person who works in a factory, whether for
 wages or not, in collecting, carrying or delivering goods carrying
 messages or running errands shall be deemed to be employed in
 the factory for the purposes of this Ordinance or of any
 proceedings thereunder.
 (4) For the purposes of this Ordinance, an apprentice shall
be deemed to be a person employed.


 APPLICATION OF ORDINANCE.

 4. Sav, as in this Ordinance otherwise expressly provided,
the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply only to factories as
deilned by this Ordinance, but shall, except where the contrary
intention appears, apply to all such factories.

 5. (1) This Ordinance shall apply to factories belonging to
or in the occupation of Her Majesty's Government or the
Government of the Colony and to building operations and works
of engineering consLruction undertaken by or on behalf of Her
Majesty's Government or the Government of the Colony; but in
the case of any public emergency the Governor may, by order, to
the extent and during the period named in the order exempt from
this Ordinance any factory belonging to Her Majesty's
Government or the Government of the Colony or any building
operations or works of engineering construction undertaken by or
on behalf of Her Majesty's Government or the Government of the
Colony or any factory in respect of work which is being done on
behalf of Her Majesty's Government or the Gover rent of the
Colony.