TNAG-0125-FCO40-161-Labour-force-working-conditions-1969 — Page 211

B644

L.N. 189/67.

Revocation and replace- ment of regulations 9 and 9A.

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

young person by a notice under regulation 10; and

(b) in reckoning the aggregate hours of overtime employment, account shall be taken only of any period during which any woman or young person is employed in that industrial undertaking beyond the maximum hours pre- scribed in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 9 or either 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.".

12. 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 per- son 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 neither exceed eight in any day nor exceed forty-eight in any week;

(b) the period of employment shall-

(i) in the case of a 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 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:

Provided that in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen years such interval shall not be less than one hour;