Employment Ordinance

In any prosecution under this
Ordinance—
(a)
where the age of any person at any time is material for the purposes of any provision of this Ordinance, his age at the material time shall be deemed to be or have been that which appears to the court or magistrate, after considering any available evidence, to be or to have been his age at that time;
(b)
if the charge alleges the contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance prohibiting or controlling the employment of young persons or children and the defendant in such prosecution is the employer at the place of employment in or in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that any young person or child to whom the charge relates and who was employed in the place of employment on the day on which the offence is alleged to have been committed was employed therein on that day by such employer.
(Amended
7 of 2001 s. 11
)
(Added
10 of 1980 s. 7
)