xtract No. 1.
ORDER
NO. L
3.
LABOUR
PROTECTION.
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33.
Section 33.
(i) After the thirty-first day of August, 1928, in the case of Chinese labourers, and after the thirty-first day of August, 1927 in the case of other labourers, no engagement to labour shall be entered into for a period exceeding one month or
for more than thirty days' work and no contract to labour shall be entered into any such engagement or contract entered into in
contravention of this section shall be void and of no effect.
(ii)
No engagement to labour for a vage of less than
fifty cents per diem in the case of an adult man and thirty-five
cents per diem in the case of an adult woman shall be entered into; any such engagement entered into in contravention of this
section shall be void, and of no effect.
(iii) No contract made orentered into by any Chinese
labourer after the commencement of this Order, shall exceed three
hundred days' duration and subject to the express provisions in any such contract contained the parties thereto shall be subject to and entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Order.
(iv) Nothing in subsections (i) or (ii) shall effect the validity of any contract to labour legally entered into before the commencement of this Order provided that on the thirty-first day of August, 1928, if such contract has not already terminated it shall be void and of no effect as provided for in
section 7 of Part 1 of this Order.