TNAG-0646-FCO40-794-Application-of-international-labour-conventions-to-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 91

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on9 May 1977-

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

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Noou, Friday 6 May 1977

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Mr Frank Hooley (Shaffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Inter national Labour Organisation conventions, ratified by the United Kingdom, do not fully apply in Hong Kong; and what steps are being taken to make them applicable to that colony.

My Evana Lunard

The Internation Labour Conventions ratified by Her Majesty's Government which are potentially applicable to Hong Kong by virtue of its status as a non-metropolitan territory of the United Kingdom but which are not at present applied are as follows:

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Maternity Protection, 1919

Minimum Age (Agriculture), 1921

Sickness Insurance (Industry), 1927

Sickness Insurance (Agriculture), 1927

Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels), 1929 Protection Against Accidents (Dockers) (Revised), 1932

Old-Age Insurance (Industry, etc), 1933

Old-Age Insurance (Agriculture), 1933

Invalidity Insurance (Industry, etc), 1933

Invalidity Insurance (Agriculture), 1933

Survivors' Insurance (Industry, etc), 1933

Survivors' Insurance (Agriculture), 1933

Unemployment Provision, 1934

Sickness Insurance (Sea), 1936

Food and Catering (Ships' Crews), 1946

Certification of Ships' Cooks, 1946

Social Security (Seafarers), 1946

Certification of Able Seamen, 1946

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry), 1946

Night Work (Women) (Revised), 1948

Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) (Revised), 1948

Labour Clauses (Public Contracts), 1949

Migration for Employment (Revised), 1949

99 – Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery (Agriculture), 1951

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