LAG 214/393/7
The Permanent Secretary Department of Employment Steel House
11 Tothill Street London SW1
P/A
6
4 February 1977
sir,
1. I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to request that the following declaration may be communicated to the Director General of the International Labour Office. This is an amended declaration which replaces that registered on 28 August 1964.
2.
In accordance with Article 35(2) of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, the United Kingdom Government hereby declares that International Labour Convention No.92 concerning Accommodation of Crews (Revised), 1949, will be applied to Hong Kong with the following modifications:
Article 1(5):
Variations may be approved by the competent authority
after consultation with the shipowners or such organisation or organisations as appear to him to be representative of owners of British ships and such organisation or organisations (if any) as appear to him to be representative of seamen employed in British ships.
Article 3(2)(e):
Excluded.
Article 5(c):
Regulations do not prescribe any procedure for complaint by a recognised bona fide trade union, although a procedure for complaints by individual crew members is prescribed.
Article 10(9)(a):
Permitted accommodation in sleeping rooms for day-working ratings is, wherever practicable, between two and five persons per room, and in no event more than six.
/Article 10(10):