Hong Kong Regulations

EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS (INDUSTRY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3

Application

(Past version on 14/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) These regulations shall not apply to young persons employed in-

   (a)  any industrial undertaking in a clerical or managerial capacity or in
        any health or welfare service connected with such industrial 
        undertaking;

   (b)  any undertaking which is not carried on by way of trade or for the
        purposes of gain;

   (c)  any agricultural operation;

   (d)  the preparation of food for consumption and sale on the premises
        whereon it is prepared. (L.N. 387 of 1982)

(2) Part IV of the Ordinance does not apply in relation to young persons to
whom these regulations apply. (L.N. 387 of 1982)

(3) A young person who works in any industrial undertaking, whether for wages
or not, either in a process or in cleaning any part of the premises used for
any process, or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery or plant or in
any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process,
or connected with the article made or otherwise the subject of the process
therein, shall, save as may otherwise be provided by these regulations, be
deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of these regulations or of any
proceedings thereunder: Provided that any young person employed-

   (a)  solely in cleaning the premises or any part thereof of such
        industrial undertaking, otherwise than in cleaning which is incidental
        to or connected with any process; or

   (b)  solely as a caretaker in such premises, shall not be deemed for the
        purposes of these regulations to be employed in such undertaking.

(4) The application of these regulations to young persons who are registered
apprentices under the Apprenticeship Ordinance ( Cap 47) and their employers
shall be subject to any specific provisions to the contrary in that Ordinance.
(L.N. 229 of 1997)