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"Both the Registration of Persons Ordinance and the Registration of Persons Regulations provide an effective means for the differentiation between children and young persons, requiring registration to take place at the age of 11 years with the issue of an identity card bearing a photograph, full personal name in English and Chinese, and the date of birth."
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"During the period under review, there were 543 prosecutions for employing children in industrial undertakings. Of these, 507 cases were convicted, two cases were dismissed and 34 cases were withdrawn due to closure of the industrial undertakings concerned."
QUESTION VI
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"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 received from any organisations of employers or workers during the period under review."
Hong Kong August 1987
J.C.A. HAMMOND
Commissioner for Labour
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