B638
L.N. 189/67.
Revocation and replace- ment of regulations 9 and 9A.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(b) in reckoning the aggregate hours of overtime employment, account shall only be taken of any period during which any woman or young person is employed in that industrial undertaking beyond the maximum hours prescribed in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 9 or either earlier or later, as the case may be, than the hours prescribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employment specified in sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph.”.
10. Regulations 9 and 9A of the principal regulations are revoked and replaced by the following-
"General conditions as to hours of employ- ment of
women
and young persons.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, no proprietor shall employ any woman or young person in any industrial undertaking unless the working hours, the period of employment and the intervals for meals and rest for such woman or young person con- form to the following conditions, namely
(a) the total hours worked shall-
(i) in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen, neither exceed eight in any day nor exceed forty-eight in any week;
or
(ii) in any other case, neither exceed eight hours and twenty minutes in any day nor exceed fifty in any week;
(b) the period of employment shall-
(i) in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen, not exceed nine hours in any day and shall neither begin earlier than six o'clock in the morning nor end later than seven o'clock in the evening; and
(ii) in any other case, not exceed ten hours and twenty minutes in any day and shall neither begin earlier than six o'clock in the morning nor end later than eight o'clock in the evening;
(c) no woman or young person shall be required or permitted to work continuously for a spell of more than five hours without thereafter an interval of not less than half an hour for a meal or rest:
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