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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
PURSUANT
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to Question on 24 February 1982
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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To ask the
MR ROBERT PARRY (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): Lord Privy Seal what measures are used by the Hong Kong Government to ensure that carcinogenic chemicals are not illegally used in Hong Kong factories; and how many staff are engaged in such work.
Mr Dongles Hand
Panskan v
Pursuant to my right honourable Friend's reply of 24 February, the following is the information in
The Hong Kong Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance
and subsidiary regulations provide for the control of harmful
substances, including carcinogenic chemicals other than
radioactive substances.
However it has not been necessary
to prescribe any such control so far. 189 staff are engaged
in inspection and enforecement duties generally under the
Ordinance.