Hong Kong Ordinances

APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE - SECT 44

Power to extend age limit of young persons

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 54 of 2000 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive may, by notice in the Gazette, extend the
upper age limit in the definition of "young person" in section 2 from 18 years
to an age limit not exceeding 21 years. (Amended 54 of 2000 s. 3)

(2) Sections 6 and 7 shall not apply to an employer in respect of a person
who-

   (a)  is in his employment in a designated trade at the date when the
upper age limit in the definition of "young person" is extended under
subsection (1); and

        (b)	is included within the definition of "young person" by virtue 
of the extension, for so long as the employer continues to employ the
young person in that designated trade.