36, Section 81 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for subsections (1) and (2) thereof, of the following new subsections:-
| " (1) Where, in any premises forming part of an Institution carried on for charitable or reformatory purposes or for technical or vocational training, any manual labour Is exercised in or Incidental to the making, altering, requiring, 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 shall subject as hereinafter in this section provided, apply to those premises. |
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| (2) If in any institution carried on. for charitable or reformatory purposes, to which this Ordinance applies the persons having the control of the institution (hereinafter referred to as the managers) satisfy the Commissioner 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 Commissioner 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 Commissioner a, scheme for the regulation of the hours of employment, intervals for meals, and holidays of the inmates, and if the Commissioner is satisfied that the provisions of the scheme are not less favourable to the inmates than the corresponding provisions of this Ordinance, the Commissioner may approve the scheme, and upon the scheme being so approved this Ordinance shall, until the approval is revoked, apply as if the provisions of the scheme were substituted for the corresponding provisions of this Ordinance, | | |
| | (b) The medical officer of the institution (if any) may, on the application of the managers, be appointed to be the authorized factory doctor for the institution. | | |
| | (c) The provisions of Part X as to the posting of an abstract and notices shall not apply, but among the particulars required to be shown in the general register there shall be included such particulars of the scheme as may be prescribed or where no scheme is in force such particulars as may be prescribed as to hours of employment, intervals for meals or rest, and holidays, and other matters dealt with in this Ordinance. | | |
| | (d) In the case of premises forming part of an institution carried on for reformatory purposes, if the managers of the institution give notice to the Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer to that effect, an Inspecting Engineer or Inspecting Medical Officer shall not, without the consent of the managers or of the persons having charged of the institution; under the managers, examine an inmate of the institution save in the presence of one of the managers or. of such person as aforesaid. | | |
| | (e) The managers shall, not later than the fifteenth day of January in every year, send to the Commissioner a correct return, in such form as may be prescribed, specifying the names of the managers and the name of the persons (if any) having charge of the institution under the managers, and such particulars as to the number, age, sex and employment of the inmates and other persons employed in the work carried on in the institution as may be prescribed, and shall, if they fail to do so, be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees." | | |
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