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LAG 214/393/3

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

LONDON SW1A 2AH

26 July 1978

The Fermanent Secretary Department of Employment Steel House

11 Tothill Street London SW1

Sir

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY MO. 51 2 8 JUL 1978

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1. I am directed by Mr Secretary Owen to request that a declaration in the following terms be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation:

"In accordance with Article 35(2) of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation the United Kingdom Government hereby declares that the Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1948, (No 90) will be applied to Hong Kong with the following modifications -

Article 2(1)

(a) For persons under 16 years the term "night"

may cover a period of eleven consecutive hours;

(b)

For persons of or over 16 years and under 18 years the term "night" may cover a period of nine consecutive hours up to the end of 1979, and a period of ten consecutive hours as from 1 January 1980, when overtime

employment of young persons will be prohibited.

Article 3(1)

Young persons of or over the age of 14 years and under 13 years may be employed in an industrial undertaking during the night:

(8) in a clerical or managerial capacity

or in any health or welfare service connected with the undertaking;

(b) in cleaning the premises, or any part thereof, of an undertaking, otherwise than in cleaning, which is incidental to or connected with any process; or

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/ (c)

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