EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
No. 45 of 1902. 1447
19. The wages of a servant shall, in the absence of agreement to the contrary, be payable monthly.
Wages payable monthly.
20. No wages shall be payable to any servant for any period of his term of service during which he has undergone sentence of imprisonment.
Forfeiture of wages.
part of period contract.
21. If any servant under a written contract of service shall, during the continuance of such contract, have been in prison or sentenced to imprisonment, or shall have been convicted for having absented himself without leave, such period of imprisonment or absence shall be indorsed on the contract by the magistrate by whom such servant may be sentenced to imprisonment or before whom such servant shall be proved to have been absent without leave, and the period of such imprisonment or absence shall not be deemed to be a part of the service of such servant under written contract, and he shall be compellable, if his employer so requires, to serve for the full period for which he had contracted to serve, and he shall for such extended period continue to be under the provisions of this Ordinance.
22. On the hearing of any complaint under this Ordinance the parties to the contract of service and their husbands and wives shall be competent as witnesses.
Parties, their husbands and wives competent as witnesses.
23. Every contract of service in force at the coming into operation of this Ordinance shall be subject to the provisions thereof and the parties thereto shall be entitled to the benefit of such provisions.
Existing contracts.
24. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to deprive an employer of his right to dismiss a servant summarily for cause, nor to deprive an employer or a servant of his civil remedy for the breach or non-performance of contract of service in any case where proceedings for such breach or non-performance are not instituted by him under this Ordinance.
25. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the application of the criminal law to the parties to a contract of service, provided that no person be punished twice for the same offence; and any prosecution commenced under this Ordinance may be withdrawn before judgment and a fresh prosecution be instituted under the criminal law applicable to the circumstances.
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