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No. 45 of 1902.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
No. 45 of 1902.
Short title.
Interpreta-tion of terms.
Person over 16 may contract.
Contract if verbal to be monthly unless within exceptions.
To amend the law relating to Employers and Servants.
[17th December, 1902.]
1. The Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902.
2. In this Ordinance,-
Contract of service means any contract, whether in writing or verbal, to work personally for any period of time :
'Employer" includes any person, firm, corporation or company who, or which, enters into any contract of service with any servant as next hereinafter defined, and the agent of every such person, firm, corporation or company :
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Servant includes every person above the age of 16 years being a mechanic, artificer or other handicraftsman, engine-driver or fireman, boatman, any person engaged for service on board any launch, motor-boat, cargo-boat, fishing-junk, or trading-junk, messenger, lift attendant, godown-keeper, tallyman, watchman, labourer, servant in husbandry or manufacture, coachman, groom or other stable servant, gardener or other garden servant, bearer of private chair, puller or propeller of private jinricksha, water carrier, domestic menial or other house servant whether ordinarily employed in or out of doors, who enters into a contract of service with an employer.
3. Any person over the age of 16 years may enter into a contract* of service under this Ordinance.
4. In the absence of any agreement in writing to the contrary every contract of service (except in the case of hire by the day, job, or journey) shall be deemed to be a contract for one month renew-able from month to month, and every such contract shall be deemed to be so renewed unless such contract shall be determined in the manner prescribed in the next section.
Every servant under such contract shall, in addition to any service which he may have specially contracted to perform, be deemed to have contracted to perform all such additional light duties as he may reasonably be called upon by his employer to perform.
* As amended by No. 8 of 1912.
As amended by No. 1 of 1912, No. 43 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911.