A438
Ord. No. 67/74
Addition
of new Schedule.
Presump- tion.
[cf. 1965 c. 62, s. 9(2).]
6.
EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3)
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000.
(3) Without prejudice to any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (2), if an employer fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (1), the employee may by notice in writing to the employer require the employer to give to the employee a written statement complying with those requirements within such period (not being less than one week beginning with the day on which the notice was given) as may be specified in the notice.
(4) If, without reasonable excuse, an employer fails to comply with a notice under subsection (3) he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-
(a) in the case of a first conviction to a fine of
$2,000; or
(b) in the case of a second or subsequent con-
viction, to a fine of $3,000.
31Q. For the purposes of this Part an employee who has been dismissed by his employer shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been so dismissed by reason of redundancy.".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after the Second Schedule, the following new Schedule—
"THIRD SCHEDULE
[s. 31M.]
DEATH OF EMPLOYER OR OF EMPLOYEE
PART I
Death of Employer
1. This Part shall have effect in relation to an employee where his employer (in this Part referred to as "the deceased employer") dies.
2. Section 31J shall not apply to any change whereby the owner- ship of the business, for the purposes of which the employee was employed by the deceased employer, passes to a personal representative of the deceased employer.
3. Where, by virtue of section 31L(1), the death of the deceased employer is to be treated for the purposes of Part VA of this Ordinance as a termination by him of the contract of employment, the employee shall nevertheless not be treated for these purposes as having been dis- missed by the deceased employer if—
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