HONG KONG
LEGAL REPORT
THE EMPLOYMENT
(MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE 1979
(No. 55 of 1979)
Enclosure No. 2
The main object of this Ordinance is to enable regulations to be made to extend the prohibition of the employment of children and thus facilitate the provisions of the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279) relating to the school attendance by children of compulsory school age. Opportunity has been taken to provide general powers of entry into places of employment in order to ascertain whether the requirements of the Employment Ordinance are being complied with.
2. For consistency with the Education Ordinance, the Ordinance amends section 2 of the Employment Ordinance by inserting a definition of "child", and consequentially amends the definition therein of "young person". Up to 31 August 1980, "child" will mean a person under 14 years and, after that date, a person under 15 years of age; and up to the same date, "young person" will mean a person between 14 and 18 years and after that, a person between 15 and 18 years of age. Consequential and related amendments are made to the Employment of Young Persons and Children at Sea Ordinance (Chapter 58), the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Chapter 59), the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations and the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance (Chapter 213).
3. Before the Acting Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I advised that he could properly do so.
20 July 1979.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
HONG KONG.
John Gaufget
Attorney General.