1975 Ed.]
Labour Relations
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CHAPTER 55
LABOUR RELATIONS
To provide for improvement of labour-management relations and the settlement of trade disputes and matters incidental thereto.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
[1st August, 1975.]
1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Labour Relations Ordinance.
(2) Part V shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor in Council by notice in the Gazette.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires----
"arbitration" means arbitration in a trade dispute under Part III;
"arbitration tribunal" means an arbitration tribunal appointed under section 12;
"board of inquiry" means a board of inquiry appointed under section 22;
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner for Labour;
"conciliation" means a discussion or action initiated or undertaken by a conciliation officer to assist the parties to a trade dispute to reach a settlement of the trade dispute;
"conciliation officer" means an officer of the Labour Relations Division of the Labour Department who is authorized by the Commissioner under section 3(c) to initiate or undertake conciliation;
"employee" means any person who has entered into or works under (or, in the case of a contract which has been terminated, worked under) a contract with an employer, whether the contract is by way of manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, is express or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract of service or apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour;
"employer" means the person by whom an employee is (or, in a case where the employment has ceased, was) employed;
"party" means a party to a trade dispute;
"special conciliation" means a discussion or action initiated or undertaken by a special conciliation officer to assist the parties to a trade dispute to reach a settlement of the trade dispute;
Originally $5 of 1973.
92 of 1975.
Short title and commencement.
Interpretation.