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In Confidence
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To:-
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Your despatch No. 1137 of 10 October 1969
reference CR 4/3051/53IV
Trade Union Registration (Amendment) Bill
having had
Twee grateful for the opportunity to study
the above draft Bill before reference was made
is
to the Labour Advisory Board, the UMELCO Labour
Group, and other interested bodies. Before commenting
on the detailed provisions of the Bill I will
refer to the position regarding the relevent
ILO Conventions, as I now understand it.
2.
It is noted that Convention No. 84 will
continue to be fully applied under the new Bill,
but that Convention No. 87, also dealing with
Freedom of Association, will continue to be applied
only with declared modifications in respect of
Articles 3,5 and 6 of the Convention. Convention
No. 98, which is concerned with the right to
bargain collectively, has not been applied and
it is understood that the Hong Kong Government
NAI
has reserved its position 3I will now comment
where
in detail on the draft Bill; whether there is
no reference to a clause then I have no comments:
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