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fully applied in Hong Kong and the other Conventions
which may have relevance on safety practices in
factories are of no direct concern to Hong Kong
because they are not ratified by the U.K.
8) RESTRICTION OF WORK
No further improvement on the application of
ILO Conventions is possible because Convention No.
138 which deals with minimum age for all kinds of
employment has not yet been ratified by the UK and
Hong Kong is not therefore required to make any
declaration thereon. Convention 60 remains
open for ratification but again it has not been
ratified by UK.
9) TRADE UNIONS
These represent only partial improvement and
do not enable us to change our declaration of
"applied with modifications" in respect of Articles
3,5 and 6 of I.L.O. Convention No. 87 concerning
the Freedom of Association and Protection of the
Right to Organise.
LAW AND ORDER
20.
Reported key crime increased from 15,000
cases in 1965 to 44,300 in 1974 but was held at 42,800
in 1975. These figures include an increase in violent
crime from 3,020 cases in 1965 to 19,682 in 1974, which
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