Trade Boards.
this Ordinance, shall be deemed for the purposes of this Ordinance to be the employer of the worker, and the net remuneration obtainable by the worker in respect of the work after allowing for his necessary expenditure in connexion with the work shall be deemed to be wages.
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not to
mium where
rates in
force.
8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 32, s. 7.
9. (1) Where a worker in any trade, being a person
Employers to
whom a minimum rate of wages fixed by the Governor in
receive pre-
Council applies, is an apprentice or learner, it shall not be
minimum
lawful for his employer to receive directly or indirectly from him, or on his behalf or on his account, any payment by way of premium: Provided that nothing in the foregoing provisions shall apply to any such payment duly made in pursuance of any instrument of apprenticeship not later than four weeks after the commencement of the employment.
Schedule.
(2) If any employer acts in contravention of this provi-
sion, he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine of five hundred dollars, and the
22 of 1950.
court may by the conviction, in addition to imposing a fine, adjudge him to repay to the worker or other person by whom the payment was made the sum improperly received by way of premium.
10. (1) Any officer of any Government department for the time being assisting in carrying this Ordinance into effect shall have power for the performance of his duties-
(a) to require the production of wages sheets or other record of wages by an employer, and records of payments made to outworkers by persons giving out work and to inspect and examine the same and copy any material part thereof;
(b) to require any person giving out work and any outworker to give any information which it is in his power to give with respect to the names and addresses of the persons to whom the work is given out or from whom the work is received, as the case may be, and with respect to the payments to be made for the work;
(c) at all reasonable times to enter any factory or work-
shop or any place used for giving out work to out-
workers;
Powers of
9 Edw. 7, c.
officers.
22, s. 15.
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