EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
No. 45 of 1902.
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8. No such contract shall be effective for a longer period than five years if made beyond the Colony, nor shall be for a longer period than three years if made within the Colony.
Limitation of duration of contract.
9. Any person beyond the Colony desiring to enter into a contract to serve within the Colony may do so in writing in the presence of two witnesses who shall certify as such witnesses that the contract was, before the execution thereof, duly explained to the party or parties executing the same.
Contract made beyond the Colony for service within.
10. Every such contract shall clearly express therein the time for which it is to endure, the wages to be paid, the nature of the service to be performed, the sum of money (if any) to be chargeable against and deducted from the wages, and that the employer is bound to provide regular work at stipulated wages for the servant.
What conditions shall be stated therein.
11. Any magistrate, upon proof that such contract has been duly executed, may, if so desired by the parties thereto, indorse such contract as acknowledged before him and thereupon such contract shall be as valid and binding within the Colony as a contract of service in writing executed within the Colony.
Indorsement of contract by magistrate.
12. Every question between the parties to any contract of service respecting wages or alleged disobedience of lawful orders, negligence, carelessness, injury to property, insolence, abusive or insulting language, or other alleged misconduct in the course of service under such contract; and every question respecting any alleged refusal or neglect to enter upon or commence service under any such contract, or respecting alleged unlawful absence from service under any such contract, or other alleged failure to fulfil the terms thereof; and every question respecting any alleged wrongful determination of any such contract shall be heard and determined by a magistrate in a summary manner in accordance with the law regulating procedure before magistrates.
[Ref. No. 3 of 1890.]
13. If it be made to appear to a magistrate that there is good ground for believing that any party against whom a complaint has been made under this Ordinance, has absconded or is about to abscond, such magistrate may issue a warrant to apprehend such party and detain him in custody until the hearing of such complaint, unless such party shall give security to the satisfaction of such magistrate for his appearance to answer such complaint.
Magistrate may issue warrant to arrest absconding party to contract.