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No. 45 of 1902.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
Power of magistrate in cases of wrongful determina-
tion of contract.
Wages payable monthly.
Forfeiture of wages.
Parties, their husbands and wives com-
petent as witnesses.
Saving of civil remedy in cases of breach or
wages the magistrate may order that the whole or any part of any wages claimed be withheld, or that the whole or any part of any wages, with such an amount not exceeding ten days' wages in addition as may seem just, shall be paid by way of compensation to the servant for unpaid wages.
14. On the hearing of any complaint for wrongful deter-
mination of any contract of service the magistrate may order any wages due on the contract to be paid or withheld either wholly or in part and may, if he sees fit, order the party in default to pay to the other party any sum not exceeding one month's wages by way of compensation for the wrongful deter-
mination of the contract.
15. The wages of a servant shall, in the absence of agree-
ment to the contrary, be payable monthly.
16. No wages shall be payable to any servant for the period of his term of service during which he has undergone sentence of imprisonment.
17. On the hearing of any complaint under this Ordinance the parties to the contract of service and their husbands and wives shall be competent as witnesses.
18. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to deprive an employer of his right to dismiss a servant summarily for cause, nor to deprive an employer or a servant of his civil remedy non-perform for the breach or non-performance of any contract of service in any case where proceedings for such breach or non-performance are not instituted by him under this Ordinance.
Saving of criminal proceedings in certain cases.
Saving of Merchant Shipping laws.
19. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the application of the criminal law to the parties to a contract of service.
20. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect in any way the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,
* As amended by No. 10 of 1932 [27.5.32]. † As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.