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(5) All members shall be appointed by the Governor, but the employers and workers may nominate representatives for appointment, subject to the Governor's approval, as representative members.
(6) In order to constitute a meeting of a Trade Board, 9 Edw. 7. c. at least one third of the whole number of the representative 22, s. 11 (6). members and at least one appointed member must be present.
(7) A Trade Board for any trade shall consider, as General occasion requires, any matter referred to them by the duties of Governor with reference to the industrial conditions of the Boards.
Trade trade, and shall make a report upon the matter to the 9 Edw. 7. e. Governor.
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3. The provisions of sections 3 to 10, inclusive, of the Ordinance Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, shall apply to any Board so appointed.
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Trade
4. (1) Every Trade Board shall, subject to the provi- sions of this section, recommend a minimum rate of wages powers of for time-work in their trade (in this Ordinance referred to Boards with as a general minimum time-rate ") and may also recommend respect to for their trade-
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(a) A general minimum rate of wages for piece-work (in 9 Edw. 7. c. this Ordinance referred to as a general minimum piece- 22, s. 4. rate '');
(b) A minimum time-rate (which shall not be higher than the general minimum time-rate) to apply in the ease of workers employed on piece-work for the purpose of securing to such workers a minimum rate of remuneration on a time- work basis (in this Ordinance referred to as "a guaranteed time-rate ");
(c) A minimum rate (whether a time-rate or a piece- rate) to apply, in substitution for the minimum rate which would otherwise be applicable, in respect of hours worked by a worker in any week or on any day in excess of the number of hours considered by the Trade Board to be the normal number of hours of work per week or for that day in the trade (in this Ordinance referred to as an overtime rate”);
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Any of the minimum rates aforesaid may be fixed so as to apply universally to the trade or so as to apply to any special process in the work of the trade or to any special area, or to any class of workers in the trade, or to any class of workers in any special process or in any special area.
If a Trade Board report to the Governor that it is impracticable in any case to fix a general minimum time-rate. in accordance with this section, the Governor may so far as respects that case relieve the Trade Board of their duty.
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mum rate
5.-(1) Where any minimum rate of wages has been Penalty for fixed by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance, an
not paying employer shall, in cases to which the minimum rate is accordance applicable, pay wages to the person employed at not less than with mini- the minimum rate clear of all deductions, and if he fails to which has do so shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of been made obligatory, each offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty
9 Edw. 7, c. dollars and to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each day 22, s. 6. on which the offence is continued after conviction therefor.
(2) On the conviction of an employer under this section for failing to pay wages at not less than the minimum rate person employed, the court may by the conviction
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