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information would have been requested. No statistics have been kept of the number of cases in which it was necessary to ask for further information or documentation before a passport was issued.
International Labour Organisation Conventions
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why the Hong Kong Government have made no declaration on the application of International Labour Organisation convention No. 116 (Final Articles Revision) dated 1961.
Mr. Luce: International Labour convention No. 116 is a procedural convention and as such places no obligations on ratifying states or their non-metropolitan territories.
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why the Hong Kong Government have made no declaration on the application of International Labour Organisation convention No. 80 (Final Articles Revision) dated 1946.
Mr. Luce: International Labour convention No 80 is a procedural convention and as such places no obligations on ratifying states or their non-metropolitan territories.
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why the Hong Kong Government have made no declaration on the application of International Labour Organisation convention No. 83 on labour standards (Non-Metropolitan Territories) dated 1947.
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Mr. Luce: By virtue of its status as a non-metropolitan territory Hong Kong cannot make a declaration on International Labour convention No. 83. This convention allow territories of member states which ratify the convention to make declarations on number of conventions specified in a schedule to convention No. 83 whether or not the state of which they are a dependent territory has ratified the conventions. The United Kingdom has ratified convention No. 83: Hong Kong has made declarations on eight of the conventions listed in the schedule.
Hong Kong (Refugees)
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why the United Nations conven- tion and 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees were not extended to Hong Kong.
Mr. Luce: The 1951 convention relating to the status of refugees was not extended to Hong Kong because of the territory's small size and its geographial vulnerability to mass illegal immigration. The 1967 protocol was applied only to those territories to which the 1951 convention was extended.
ILO Conventions
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report the 29 international labour conventions of the International Labour Organisation on which the Hong Kong Government have made declarations that they will apply without modification.
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Mr. Luce: The Hong Kong Government have made declarations to apply without modifications the following International Labour conventions that have been ratified by the United Kingdom.
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12
15
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Unemployment, 1919
Minimum Age (Industry), 1919 Minimum Age (Sea), 1920
Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck), 1920 Right of Association (Agriculture), 1921 Workmen's Compensation (Agriculture), 1921 Minimum Age (Trimmers and Stokers), 1921 Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation)
1925
Seaman's Articles of Agreement, 1926
Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery, 1928
26
29
Forced Labour, 1930
32
42
45
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64
65
74
81
84
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97
98
105
108
115
122
124
151
Protection Against Accidents (Dockers), Revised
1932
Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases)
Revised 1934
Underground Work (Women), 1935
Recruiting of Indigenous Workers, 1936
Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers)
1939
Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) 1939 Certification of Able Seamen, 1946
Labour Inspection, 1947
Right of Association (Non-Metropolitan
Territories), 1947
Labour Inspectorates (Non-Metropolitan
Territories), 1947
Migration for Employment Revised 1949
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining, 1949
Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957
Seafarers' Identity Documents, 1958
Radiation Protection, 1960
Employment Policy, 1964
Medical Examination of Young Persons (Under-
ground Work) 1965
Labour Relations (Public Service), 1978
* The declaration on convention No. 85, which specifically applies to non-metropolitan territories, has since been superseded by a later declaration on convention No. 81 which makes similar provisions to those of convention No. 85.
The 30 conventions given above represent an increase of one over the information given in the previous reply to the hon. Member on 16 February, at column 276. The reason for this is that convention No. 42 was included erroneously in the figure given for conventions applied with modification.
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report the 16 International Labour Organisation conventions which have been ratified by Her Majesty's Government but have been modified by the Hong Kong Government.
Mr. Luce: The Hong Kong Government have made declarations to apply with modifications the following International Labour conventions that have been ratified by the United Kingdom:
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