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LETTER

Mr EP Ho

Secretary for Social Services

Government Secretariat

HONG LONG

J A B Stewart

HKGD

APPLICATION OF ILO CONVENTIONS

1. Thank you for your letter CR7/5633/74 of 5 January. Lord Gorenwy-Roberts has asked me to pass on his apprecia- tion for the contiming significant progress you are making in this field. I om confirm that we accept your programme for 1978.

2.

There is one minor technical point about mumbers, We believe that any new er improved declaration should only be considered as having been made when the proposed declaration, together with a trial report, has been submitted to us. On this basis the details for 1977 and 1978 are:

1977

92:

94:

Accommodation of crews (revised) Labour clauses (public contracts)

141:

101:

90:

Rural workers' organizations

Holidays with pay (agriculture)

Night work of young persons (industry) (revised)

1078

17:

421

144:

32:

74:

94:

3.

Workmen's compensation (accidents) (probably 2

separate declarations)

Workman's compensation (occupational diseases) Tripartite consultation (international labour

standarda)

onsul

Protection against accidents (deokers) (revised)

Certification of able-seamen

Labour clauses (public contracts)

Overall the result is the same whatever date is used

but it is of some importance that we should agree a method of establishing at any given time, e.g. when a