Hong Kong Regulations

EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS (INDUSTRY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 8

General conditions as to hours of employment of young persons

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

(1) Subject to these regulations, no employer shall employ any young person in
any industrial undertaking unless the working hours, the period of employment
and the intervals for meals and rest for such young person conform to the
following conditions, namely-

   (a)  the total hours worked shall neither exceed 8 in any day nor exceed 48
        in any week;

   (b)  the period of employment shall-

        (i)    (Repealed L.N. 41 of 1988)

        (ii)   not exceed 10 hours in any day and shall neither begin earlier
               than 7 a.m. nor end later than 7 p.m.;

        (iii)  (Repealed L.N. 229 of 1997)

   (c)  no young person shall be required or permitted to work continuously
        for a spell of more than 5 hours without thereafter an interval of not
        less than half an hour for a meal or rest;

   (d)  except with the permission in writing of the Commissioner, the
        period of employment and the intervals allowed for meals and rest in
        accordance with this regulation shall be the same for all young
        persons employed in such industrial undertaking.

(1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a), the total hours worked by a young
person in an industrial undertaking may, by agreement between the employer and
the young person concerned, exceed 8 on one or more days in any week or 48 in
any week: Provided that the total hours worked by the young person in that
week and the next following week do not exceed 96. (L.N. 41 of 1988)

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, work shall be deemed to be continuous
unless interrupted by an interval of at least half an hour. (L.N. 41 of 1988;
L.N. 229 of 1997)