TNAG-0585-FCO40-718-Employment-of-children-in-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 295

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for ORAL answer on. 18 February 1976

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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Noon, Wednesday 11 February 1976

*La Mr Ronald Atkins (Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the minimum age for employment in Hong Kong.

Mr. David Enuals.

While

There is no minimum age for employment in Hong Kong, except that no person under fourteen years of age may be employed in industrial undertakings. No person under the same age may likewise be employed, and no female under eighteen years of age may be employed between 8.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m., in licensed premises in which liquor is sold.

(18248) Dd.145250 4m 8/73 G.W.B.Ltd. Gp.863

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