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Ordinance and regulations generally, but it will be no offence
for an unregistered Chinese watchman to act as such, and it
will be no offence for an employer to employ an unregistered
Chinese person as a watchinan.
5. The original proposals included, inter alia, the following
features :
6.
(a)
All registered watchmen, i.e, all
watchmen to whom the legislation was
to apply, were to be subject to
discipline and training by the Captain
Superintendent of Police and were to be
paid through him, and certain minimum
rates of pay were to be fixed for all
registered watchmen.
(b) No registered watchman was to be allowed
to act as a money-lender.
(c) No registered watchman was to be allowed
to perform the duties of a watchman for
more than one employer.
When the bill was published a request was received from a
number of Indian watchmen through a firm of solicitors for the
permission to appear by counsel before the Legislative Council
on the second reading. The points which the applicants
proposed to put before the Council included the following
objections :-
(a)
The bill was a negation of the individual
right of bargaining with regard to one's
services.
(3)
Police training would make considerable
inroads on the time and pay of watchmen.
(c) The prohibition against money-lending
would be a great hardship.