Hong Kong Regulations

EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3

Application

(1) The provisions of sections 18(5), 19(2) and (3) and 20 of the Ordinance do
not apply in relation to children employed under these regulations.

(2) These regulations do not apply in relation to children who are registered
apprentices under the Apprenticeship Ordinance ( Cap 47).

(3) A child who works in an industrial undertaking or other place of
employment, whether for wages or not, either in a process, trade or business
or in cleaning any part of the industrial undertaking or other place of
employment used for any process, trade or business or in any other kind of
work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process, trade or business
shall be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of these regulations
or of any proceedings thereunder. (L.N. 84 of 1980)

(4) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that these regulations
are not in derogation of any other enactment which relates to the prohibition
or control of the employment of children. (L.N. 84 of 1980)