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L.N. 189/67.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
young person by a notice under regulation 10:
(b) in reckoning the aggregate hours of over- time employment, account shall be taken only of any period during which any woman or young person is employed in that indus- trial undertaking beyond the maximum hours prescribed in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 9 or either earlier or later, as the case may be, than the hours prescribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employment specified in sub- paragraph (b) of that paragraph.".
Made by the Commissioner of Labour on the 21st day of November 1967.
R. M. HETHERINGTON, Commissioner of Labour.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
For the purpose of bringing certain working conditions into line with the corresponding accepted international practice, it is proposed to reduce progressively over a period of four years, commencing on the 1st day of December 1967, the hours of employment and of work of all women and some young persons in industrial undertakings. Hours of work will be reduced over this period from ten hours a day and sixty, hours a week to eight hours a day and forty-eight hours a week. Con- currently, it is proposed to increase progressively over the same period the maximum permissible hours of overtime from an aggregate of one hundred hours a year to an aggregate of three hundred hours a year. In addition, consequential reductions in periods of employment will become effective.
2. No changes are proposed for young persons aged fourteen and fifteen years who at present may not work for more than eight hours a day or forty-eight hours a week and who may not be employed on overtime. No changes are proposed in the existing regulations relating to rest periods during the period of employment, one rest day in every seven days, and arrangements for shift work.
3. Regulation 9 of the principal regulations prescribes the general conditions as to hours of employment excluding overtime and shift work. This regulation will be revoked and replaced on the 1st day of December in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971, with the effect that the progressively reduced hours of work and any consequential reductions of periods of employment will come into operation on those dates. Regulations 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12 of these regulations effect the progressive revocation and replacement of regulations 9 and 9A of the principal regulations.