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Ord. No. 55/87
EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT)
HONG KONG
No. 55 of 1987
L.S.
I assent.
David WILSON,
Governor.
9 July 1987
An Ordinance to amend the Employment Ordinance.
EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT)
(b) by inserting, after subsection (4), the following--
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"(4A) A female employee who has given notice under subsection (4) shall, if her pregnancy ceases otherwise than by reason of confinement, give notice of such cessation of pregnancy to her employer as soon as is reasonably practicable.".
Section 15(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of the full stop at the end thereof and substituting the following—
"or the date of cessation of her pregnancy (otherwise than by reason of confinement).".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 8th day of July 1987.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
section 15.
[10 July 1987]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.
Amendment of
2.
Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
section 6.
(Cap. 57.)
(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after “(2A),” the following—
"(2B),"; and
(b) by inserting, after subsection (2A), the following-
"(2B) The period of maternity leave to which a female employee is entitled under section 12 shall not be included under subsection (2) in the length of notice required to terminate a contract of employment.”.
Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in subsection (4), by deleting "within the period of 12 weeks before the expected date of her confinement" and substituting the following
"after her pregnancy has been certified as provided in this section"; and
Amendment of section 12.
3.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.