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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Articles 3 and 4 of the Convention. Please supply copies of the Nursing Ordinance of 1952 and of any other text respecting the responsibilities of the Nurses and Midwives Council. Please also supply a copy of the text in which the national policy on the type of health care to be provided to the nation is set out, and to which the Government referred in its previous report.

Article 5, paragraph 2. Please indicate how effect is given to this provision of the Convention for both nursing personnel in the private sector and nursing personnel in the public sector.

Article 5, paragraph 3. Please supply copies of the provisions that apply to the settlement of disputes for both nursing personnel employed in the private sector and nursing personnel employed in the public sector.

Article 6. Please supply copies of the legal provisions or regulations and/or collective agreements that determine the terms and conditions of employment of nursing personnel in the fields covered by paragraphs (a) to (g) of this Article and indicate the extent to which these conditions are comparable with those established for other workers in general.

Article 7. Please indicate the measures that have been taken to give effect to this Article.

Point V of the report form. Please supply the information requested under this point of the report form regarding the manner in which effect is given to the Convention in practice.