1988 Ed.]
Employees' Compensation
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including tips if the employment be of such a nature that the habitual giving and receiving thereof is open and notorious and is recognized by the employer: but shall not include remuneration for intermittent overtime, or casual payments of a non-recurrent nature, or the value of a travelling allowance, or the value of any travelling concession or a contribution paid by the employer of an employee towards any pension or provident fund, or a sum paid to an employee to cover any special expenses entailed on him by the nature of his employment;
"employer" includes Her Majesty in Her Government of Hong Kong and any body of persons corporate or incorporate and the legal personal representative of a deceased employer, and, where the services of an employee are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the employee has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, the latter shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to continue to be the employer of the employee whilst he is working for that other person; and in relation to a person engaged, employed or paid through a club or hostel, the manager or members of the managing committee of the club or hostel shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be the employer; (Amended, 76 of 1982, s. 37)
"hospital" means any hospital registered under the Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance (Cap. 165) or maintained by the Crown; (Added, 74 of 1977, s. 2)
"insurance company" and "insurer" mean a person carrying on accident insurance business in Hong Kong; (Replaced, 55 of 1969, s. 3. Amended, 76 of 1982, s. 37)
"medical expenses" means all or any of the following expenses incurred in respect of the medical treatment of an employee-
(a) the fees of a medical practitioner or registered dentist;
(b) the fees for any surgical or therapeutic treatment;
(c) the cost of nursing attendance;
(d) the cost of hospital accommodation as an in-patient;
(e) the cost of medicines, curative materials and medical dressings; (Added, 74 of 1977, s. 2)
"medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who-
(a) is registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161); or
(b) is deemed to be a registered medical practitioner by virtue of section 29(a) or (d) of the said Ordinance; (Replaced, 13 of 1966, Schedule)
"medical treatment", in relation to an employee to whom a personal injury is caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, means medical treatment of any kind whatsoever given to the employee by, or under the supervision of, a medical practitioner or registered dentist in a hospital, whether as an in-patient or other than as an in-patient, or elsewhere; (Added, 74 of 1977, s. 2)
"member of the family" means-