QUESTION IV
No court of law has made any decision involving questions of principle relating to the application of the convention in Hong Kong.
QUESTION V
Parents/guardians are required to register their children at the age of 11 under the Registration of Persons Ordinance and the Registration of Persons Regulations. These children are issued with an identity card bearing a photograph, full personal name in English and Chinese, and the date of birth.
failure
Parents are required to register the birth of their children and do so is a contravention of the provisions of section 7 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance. Consequently, evidence of age can easily be ascertained from either the birth certificate or the identity card pertaining to the child.
The number of paid agricultural workers in Hong Kong comprises a very small percentage (about 0.8% according to the 1986 by-census) of the total working population. During the reporting period, no contravention for employing children in agricultural undertakings was detected.
QUESTION VI
Copies of this report have been sent to the Labour Advisory Board on which employers' organisations and trade unions are represented and, through the United Kingdom Department of Employment, to the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain. No observations regarding the application of this convention in Hong Kong have been receivel from any organisations of employers or workers during the period under review.
Hong Kong August 1991
Darwin CHEN Commissioner for Labour