Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

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 matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee recalls that, in its previous report, the Government stated that measures would be taken by the Labour Advisory Board to bring the legislation into harmony with the Convention. It requests the Government to indicate any progress made concerning the following points raised in its previous comments:

1. Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Section 98, subsection 1, of the Employment Act provides for an exception to the prohibition of night work by "young persons" (as defined in section 2 of the Act, that is to say who have reached the age of 15 but not that of 18), for purposes of apprenticeship or vocational training. An exception of this kind is authorised by the Convention only for young persons who have attained the age of 16 and on condition that the authorisation concerns only specified industries or occupations that must be carried on continuously.

2. Article 6, paragraph 1(a). Provision must be made (for example by display on notice boards) for ensuring that the legislation on the prohibition of night work by young persons is known to all the persons concerned.