Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance

In any prosecution under this
Ordinance—
(a)
if it appears to the
                court
                that any person who is alleged in the charge to have been a young person or child at
                the date of the alleged offence was a young person or child at
                that
                date, it is, until the contrary is proved, presumed that the person was a young
                person or child at that date;
(b)
if it appears to the
                court
                that any young person or child who is alleged in the charge to have been under any
                particular age at the date of the alleged offence was under that particular age at
                that
                date, it is, until the contrary is proved, presumed that the young person or child
                was under that particular age at that date;
(c)
if the charge alleges the contravention of any of the provisions of this
                Ordinance prohibiting or controlling the employment of women, young persons or
                children and the defendant in such prosecution is the proprietor of the industrial
                undertaking 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 woman, young person or
                child to whom the charge relates and who was employed in the industrial undertaking
                on the day on which the offence is alleged to have been committed was employed
                therein on that day by such proprietor.
(Added
51 of 1961 s. 5
)
(Amended
5 of 2023 s. 10
)