Article 14
14(3)(d) Legal Aid is available in all criminal cases in the Full Court and the Supreme Court, and in the District Court to persons accused of an offence carrying a maximum penalty of fourteen years or more imprisonment. It has been agreed, in principle, that legal aid will in due course be extended to all persons accused of any criminal offences in the District Court.
14(6)
Legislation does not provide for any legal right to compensation in the event of a pardon.
Article 20
This article causes difficulties for Hong Kong similar to those for the U.K. Government. In Hong Kong, left wing papers might be anti-American and anti-Taiwan; Chinese films might advocate hostility towards Taiwan; right wing publications might contain material and overt propaganda hostile to China; there is no censorship of books and magazines solely on the grounds that they contain such propaganda.
Hong Kong would wish an interpretative state- ment, similar to that recommended by the Working Group, to be extended to Hong Kong.
22(1)
Article 22
The Employment (Amendment) (No 2) Ordinance 1974 which came into force on 2nd August 1974, enables Hong Kong to comply with the Inter- national Labour Convention No. 98 (Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention 1949). This ordinance confers various rights on employees, including:
(a) the right to be and to become a member
or an officer of a trade union registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance;
(b)
(c)
the right, whether he is a member or an officer of a trade union, to take part in the activities of the trade union; and
the right to associate with other persons for the purpose of forming or applying for the registration of a trade union.
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