$10
When several householders.
Register of servants employed at the commencement of this Ordinance.
Servants entering service after the commencement of this Ordinance.
Certificate of registration for servants.
Servant's registration certificate to be given to employer.
Employers liable for safe custody of servant's certificates.
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1866.
Victoria Registration.
charge against such householder in his absence and to deal with the same in every respect as if such householder were present.
21. Whenever there shall be several persons "Householders" within the meaning of this Ordinance in respect of the same building or tenement by reason of being tenants in common or joint tenants, they shall each be equally liable to the provisions of this Ordinance, until the same shall have been complied with by one of them.
22. A register of servants shall be kept at the Registrar General's office, and every person who shall, at the commencement of this Ordinance, be employed as a servant shall within thirty days next thereafter appear personally at the Registrar General's Office and furnish the following particulars to be entered in such register:-
1st. Name.
2nd. Age.
3rd. Particular capacity in which employed.
4th. Name and address of employer.
5th. Place of native domicile, and such other particulars as may from time to time be required of him.
23. Every person who shall hereafter desire to engage himself as a servant shall previously appear personally at the Registrar General's Office and furnish the particulars mentioned or referred to in section 22.
24. Every servant employed at the commencement of this Ordinance shall, upon complying with the provisions of section 22, and every person desiring thereafter to be employed as a servant shall, upon complying with the provisions of the last section, be entitled to receive from the Registrar General a numbered certificate of registration in the form given in the first schedule hereto or such other form as may be approved by the Governor in Council, and there shall be first endorsed from time to time upon such certificate the names of all persons by whom the holder thereof shall be employed as a servant.
25. Every servant shall, after first complying with the provisions of section 29, deliver his certificate of registration to his master or employer, and the said certificate shall be returned to him duly endorsed by such master or employer, whenever the term of service shall expire: Provided always, that if such servant shall leave his master or employer without permission, or shall so misconduct himself as to be dismissed, then the said master or employer shall deliver the servant's certificate of registration to the Registrar General, stating the cause of such servant leaving his employment, and it shall be optional with the Registrar General to re-issue such certificate to the servant leaving his employment or dismissed as aforesaid.
26. If the master or employer of a servant shall lose, destroy, wilfully deface, or detain without sufficient reason in the opinion of the Registrar General, any certificate delivered to him by a servant under section 25, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to issue to such servant a duplicate of such certificate, and the master or employer who had lost or destroyed the same, shall pay to the Registrar General the
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