CO129-565-18 Factories and Workshops Ordinance 1937 1-10-1937 - 4-10-1937 — Page 5

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In Section 3 of the Hong Kong

Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902 (copy

within) it is prescribed that any person over

the age of 16 years may enter into a contract

of service, from which I presume it may be

inferred that no person under the age of 16 is

allowed to do so. A contract of service is

defined as meaning "any contract, whether in

writing or verbal, to work personally for any

period of time".

Under the by-laws scheduled to the

Hong Kong Factories and Workshops Ordinance,

1937 (copy below No. 1) it is laid down that

no child under the age of 14 years shall be

employed in any industrial undertaking (this is

in accordance with the International Convention

on the subject) or in any dangerous trade, and

that no young person under the age of 16 years

shall be employed in any dangerous trade

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except with the written consent of the

Protector. There are other provisions regarding

the employment of young persons under the age

of 16 years.

It would however seem that in view

of the 1902 Ordinance no young person under the

age of 16 years may be employed at all, since

any employment must surely imply a written or

verbal contract? ontract?

? Some amendment of the 1902

Ordinance is needed.

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1902 does not say

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