THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 8, 1927.
(2) It is hereby declared that it is unlawful for one or more persons (whether acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or society or of an individual employer or firm, and notwithstanding that they may be acting in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute) to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or happens to be, for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information or of persuading or inducing any person to wor or to abstain from working, if they so attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace; and attending at or near any house or place in such numbers or in such manner as is by this sub-section declared to be unlawful shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting of that house or place within the meaning of sub-section (1).
(3) In this section the expression "to intimidate" means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable appre- hension of injury to him or to any member of his family or of violence or damage to any person or property, and the expression "injury" includes injury other than physical or material injury, and accordingly the expression "appre- hension of injury includes an apprehension of boycott, or loss of any kind, or of exposure to hatred, ridicule, or contempt.
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6.-(1) No person who is employed in the service of Breach of the Crown under the Government of Hong Kong shall contract of wilfully break an agreement for service under the Crown service to be an offence in if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the certain cases.
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combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to binder or prevent the dis- charge of the functions of the Government.
(2) For the purpose of sub-section' (1), and without prejudice to the interpretation of any express term of the agreement other than a term relating to notice, a person who is employed in the service of the Crown shall be deemed to break his agreement for service under the Crown if he absents himself from duty without leave and without having given to the head of his department one month's notice in writing terminating with the last day of a calendar month, or if he wilfully refuses duty, or if he wilfully omits to perform his duty, provided that the pro- visions of this sub-section relating to notice shall not apply to any person who is engaged by the day or who is paid daily
(3) No person who is employed by any company, firm or person engaged in the business of supplying electric current or gas to the public, or engaged in maintaining any public tramway, bus service, or public ferry, or engaged in maintaining any telephone or sanitary service, shall wilfully break a contract of service with such company, firm or person as aforesaid, if he knows or has reasonable canse to believe that the probable consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to deprive the inhabitants of the Colony, or a substantial number of them, wholly or to a great extent, of their supply of electric current or gas, or of the ordinary facili- ties of transport, or of the ordinary telephone or sanitary services.
(4) No person shall wilfully break any contract of service if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to endanger human life, or to cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether movable or immovable to destruction or serious injury.
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