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Model
Legislation
5. This legislation has never been invoked,
e.g. to deal with the communist-inspired
stoppages of work in essential services in
1967.
Those taking
Section 3 is defective.
part in a strike or lock-out may be in doubt
whether their activities are legal under its
provisions and there is no way of removing
those doubts except by a prosecution.
Section 5 is unsatisfactory in that it does not
incorporate certain important features of model
legislation based on recommendations of the
Colonial Labour Advisory Committee which
former ん
successive Secretaries of State have commended
to dependent territories.
6. The model legislation contains provisions
comparable to Section 5 of the Hong Kong
legislation; but it provides for :-
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(i)
the collective withdrawal of labour
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(ii)
(iii)
organised by a trade union;
for a uniform period of notice
before strike action can be taken;
for the posting of notices by the
employer in all premises giving the
text of these provisions.
It does not provide for the prohibition
of strikes and therefore contains no provisions
on the lines of Section 3 of the Hong Kong
legislation
which
fallanes the terms of the
Repealed
8. The model legislation has not been adopted
by Hong Kong, although it has been the Hong
Kong Government's stated intention since 1960
to review the position with regard to essential
services legislation in the light of the
forner
recommendations of the Colonial Labour
Advisory Committee.
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