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By Robin Porter
“In Hong Kong the first attempt to tackle the problem of child labour occurred with the passage of Ordinance 22 of 1922. This Act, following closely on the founding of the International Labour Organization, took first cognizance of the fact that after a long period in the Nineteenth Century as a way station for the China trade, Hong Kong was at last beginning to show some signs of industrial development. The Act forbade employment of children under 10 in factories, which it defined as premises where at least ten people were employed in manual labour.”
