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ATTORNEY

GENERAL'S

CHAMBERS,

Hongkong, 30th September, 1922.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 22 of 1922.

1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

an Ordinance to regulate the employment of children in cer-

tain industries, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is

one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.

2.

This Ordinance was drafted in order to carry out so far

as possible the recommendations of the Commission on the in-

dustrial employment of children which was appointed by the

Governor on the 24th March, 1921, and which reported on the

24th October,.1921. It is also intended to carry out the

spirit of the draft convention fixing the minimum age of ad-

mission of children to industrial employment which was adopted

by the International Labour Conference at Washington on the

28th November, 1919.

3. A child is defined in section 2 as meaning a person

under the age of 15 years.

In the Employment of Women,

Young Persons and Children Act, 1920, 10 and 11 Geo. 5, 0.65,

a child is defined as a person under the age of 14 years, but

that Act deals also with young persons whereas the ordinance

deals only with children.

The ages in the ordinance and