HC Deb 23 November 1972 vol 846 cc480-1W
Mr. Sillars

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why, earlier this year, the Hong Kong Immigration Department dropped the term colony from its passports and immigration stamps.

Mr. Kershaw

No recent changes have been made in the wording of Hong Kong passports and immigration stamps, none of which contains the word "Colony."

Mr. Sillars

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which International Labour Organisation conventions, ratified by the United Kingdom, are not fully operative within Hong Kong because they are regarded as inapplicable due to local conditions; and which conventions have been modified before becoming operative in that colony.

Mr. Kershaw

The following International Labour Organisation conventions, ratified by the United Kingdom, are not fully operative within Hong Kong because they are regarded as inapplicable due to local conditions:

  • No. 2 Unemployment, 1919.
  • No. 10 Minimum Age (Agriculture), 1921.
  • No. 12 Workmen's Compensation (Agriculture), 1921.
  • No. 17 Workmen's Compensation (Accidents), 1925.
  • No. 24 Sickness Insurance (Industry), 1927.
  • No. 25 Sickness Insurance (Agriculture), 1927.
  • No. 32 Protection Against Accidents (Dockers) (Revised), 1932.
  • No. 35 Old Age Insurance (Industry, etc.), 1933.
  • No. 36 Old Age Insurance (Agriculture), 1933.
  • No. 37 Invalidity Insurance (Industry, etc.), 1933.
  • No. 38 Invalidity Insurance (Agriculture), 1933.
  • No. 39 Survivors' Insurance (Industry, etc.), 1933.
  • No. 40 Survivors' Insurance (Agriculture), 1933.
  • No. 44 Unemployment Provision, 1934.
  • No. 56 Sickness Insurance (Sea), 1936.
  • No. 68 Food and Catering (Ships' Crews), 1946.
  • No. 69 Certification of Ships' Cooks, 1946.
  • No. 70 Social Security (Seafarers), 1946.
  • No. 74 Certification of Able Seamen, 1946.
  • No. 94 Labour Clauses (Public Contracts), 1949.
  • No. 95 Protection of Wages, 1949.
  • No. 97 Migration for Employment (Revised), 1949.
  • No. 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining, 1949.
  • No. 99 Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery (Agriculture), 1951.
  • No. 100 Equal Remuneration, 1951.
  • No. 101 Holidays with Pay (Agriculture), 1952.
  • No. 102 Social Security (Minimum Standards), 1952.
  • No. 120 Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) 1964.
  • No. 122 Employment Policy, 1964.
  • No. 124 Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work), 1965.

(2) The following ILO Conventions ratified by the United Kingdom have been modified before becoming operative in Hong Kong:

  • No. 22 Seamen's Articles of Employment, 1926.
  • No. 42 Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Disease) (revised), 1934.
  • No. 63 Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938.
  • No. 86 Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers), 1947.
  • No. 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948.
  • No. 92 Accommodation of Crews (Revised), 1949.

(3) The following ILO Convention, which is applicable only to non-metropolitan territories, has been applied with modification in Hong Kong:

  • No. 82 Social Policy (Non-Metropolitan Territories), 1950.