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The Labour Department has several separate and distinct ins- pectorates. A factory inspector enforces legislation in respect of safety and health, and a labour inspector enforces labu legislation of a social or wolfare nature, including the enforcement of hours of work, meal breaks, rest days, overtime for women and young persons in industry, and the prohibition of the employment of illegal immits as well as the prohibition of the illegal employment of children. The Technical Education and Industrial Training Department has an apprenticeship ins- pectorate which enforces legislation the aim of which is to promote and regulate the employment and training of registered apprentices.

The titles and the numbers of inspectorate posts in the Labour Department and the Technical Education and Industrial Training Department whose main responsibility is the supervision and execution of inspection work are given in the current report on Convention No. 81 (Labour Inspec- tion) under Article 10.

These officers, by carefully planned and supervised programmes of inspection enforce one or more aspects of the Employment Ordinance, the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Apprenticeship Ordinance and their subsidiary legislation. During the period under review, a total of 1,469,712 inspections and visits were made. All officers concerned are under instructions to pay particular attention to the enforcement of the provisións of this convention.

QUESTION IV

No decision involving questions of principle relating to the application of this convention have been made by courts of law or other courts.

QUESTION V

Most parents are aware of their obligations to register the birth of their children because failure to do so is a contravention of the provisions of section 7 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.

All persons entering Hong Kong who are not in possession of an identity card issued under the Registration of Persons Criinance are required to apply to be registered under that Ordinance. Consequently, evidence of age can easily be ascertained from either the birth certi- ficate or the identity card pertaining to the child.

Both the Registration of Persons (Amendment) Ordinance 1973 and the Registration of Persons (Amendment) Regulations 1973 came into force on 1st Novcmber 1973. They further provide an effective means for dis- ferentiation between children and young persons, requiring first registra- tion to take place at the age of 11 years, with the issue of an identity card bearing a photograph, full personal name in English and Chinese, and the date of birth. These facilitate the enforcement of the regulations on the employment of young persons and the prohibition of child employment in industry.

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