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TO IMMEDIATE F C O TELNO 621 OF 16 MAY 1978. INFO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.
YOUR TELNO 377: ORAL PQ ON CHILD LABOUR.
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1. THE MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR THE ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS IS HONG KONG DOLLARS
10,000.
2. THIS MAXIMUM PENALTY WAS RAISED FROM THE PREVIOUS FIGURE OF
HONG KONG DOLLARS 5,000 WITH EFFECT FROM 6 MAY 1977. THE AVERAGE LEVEL OF FINES PER CONVICTED CASE IMPOSED HAS INCREASED
SUBSTANTIALLY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS:
1977
1976
1975
1974
HONG KONG DOLLARS 1,096
543
332
289
IN 1977 OUT OF 446 CONVICTED CASES THE MAXIMUM FINE OF 5,000 DOLLARS (PRE-MAY 1977) WAS IMPOSED FOUR TIMES: THERE WERE ANOTHER
FOUR OCCASIONS SINCE LAST MAY ON WHICH FINES ALSO AT 5,000 DOLLARS WERE IMPOSED. THIS FIGURE REPRESENTS THE HIGHEST SENTENCE TO DATE.
3. YOU MAY WISH TO KNOW ALSO THAT THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN INVOLVED IN THE CONVICTED CASES LAST YEAR WAS 552. THE AVERAGE
FINE PER CHILD WAS DOLLARS 885.
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