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No. 45 of 1902.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
Person over sixteen may contract.
Contract if verbal to be monthly unless within exceptions.
Determination of monthly contract.
Contract for more than one month to be in writing.
To be executed in duplicate; servant entitled to duplicate.
service on board any launch, motor boat, cargo boat, fishing junk or trading junk, shop or office assistant, 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 jinrikisha, 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 sixteen years may enter into a contract of service under this Ordinance.
4. Every contract of service (except in the case of hire by the day, job or journey) shall until the contrary is proved be deemed to be a contract for one month renewable from month to month, and every such contract shall be deemed to be so renewed unless such contract is determined in the manner prescribed in section 5.
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.
5. Every such contract may be determined-
(1) by either party thereto giving to the other notice to determine such contract at the termination of one calendar month from the date of such notice; or
(2) at any time without notice by the employer paying to the servant in lieu of such notice the wages, if any, due to him for the time he has served and a further sum of money equal to one month's wages from the date of the determination of such contract.
6. A contract of service for more than one month shall be in writing and shall be executed in the manner hereinafter prescribed.
7. Every such contract shall be executed in duplicate in the presence of a magistrate, or in the case of any sailor, boatman or other person engaged for service on any cargo boat or fishing junk...
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.