Trade Boards.
(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.
[CAP. 63.
22, 8. 11 (6).
(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 members and at least one appointed member must be present.
(7) A Trade Board for any trade shall consider, as occasion requires, any matter referred to them by the Governor with reference to the industrial conditions of the trade, and shall make a report upon the matter to the Governor.
General Trade
duties of
Boards.
9 Edw. 7. c.
22, 8. 3.
of Cap. 86.
3. The provisions of sections 3 to 10 of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, shall apply to any Board so appointed.
Duties and Trade
powers of
Boards with
4. (1) Every Trade Board shall, subject to the provisions of this section, recommend a minimum rate of wages for time-work in their trade, in this Ordinance referred to as a general minimum time-rate, and may also recommend rates of for their trade-
(a) a general minimum rate of wages for piece-work, in this Ordinance referred to as a general minimum piece-rate;
(b) a minimum time-rate (which shall not be higher than the general minimum time-rate) to apply in the case 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.
Any of the minimum rates aforesaid may be fixed so as to apply universally to the trade or so as to apply to any
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minimum
wages. 9 Edw. 7, c. 22 s. 4.