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From the Governor, Hong Kong Foreign & Commonwealth Affair 1969 To the Secretary of State for the Estonies
REGISTRY No.51
No. 1.229.
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Date.......
NICK S/15
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No.
No.
3rd November, 1969.
My Reference... CR 1/3051/67 II
Your Reference...
HKK 5/15
Your saving despatch HKK 5/15 of 3rd October, 1969.
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Labour Department Programme of Legislation
The departmental programme of legislation of the Labour Department is designed principally for departmental use to keep all divisions in the department aware of the progress of legislation on subjects likely to affect the work and forward planning of some or all of them. It is reviewed at very frequent intervals of six weeks. Because of the large number of items in the programme, substantial progress on many of them is not possible during these short intervals. In order to keep you informed of the latest state of play, it is suggested that you would be more helpfully kept up to date if periodical reports were sent to you of significant advances in selected items. In anticipation of your agreement with this procedure, the following account sets out the current position.
2.
Since March of this year, one item of legislation has been enacted. This was the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1969 which were approved by a resolution of the Legislative Council on 27th August. These introduced new regulations prescribing a minimum age and requirements regarding medical examination for underground male workers in accordance with I.L.0. conventions 123 and 124 and I.L.0. recommendation 124. They also made some minor administrative changes to existing regulations.
3.
The Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1969 was introduced in to the Legislative Council on 22nd October and the debate on the second reading adjourned. It is probable that the bill will pass through all its stages by 19th November and generally come into force on 1st January, 1970. It extends the scope of protection, provides for better benefits, and makes some desirable procedural changes. The result will bring legislation largely in line with I.L.0. conventions 17 and 18/related recommendations.
4.
In my address at the opening session of the Legislative Council on 1st October, I mentioned two groups of bills as likely to come before Council during the session. The first group consisted of various proposals to provide better protection for the payment of wages of workers when a firm is forced to go into liquidation or bankruptcy. The second group concerned the extension of statutory
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