CAP. 61]
16 of 1949.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Excern for a
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HongKong.
Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs.
CHAPTER 61.
ILLEGAL STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS.
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To prevent strikes and lock-outs having an object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the disputants are engaged and being calculated to coerce the Govern- ment, and to prevent breaches of contract of service the consequence of which may be injurious to the public.
[29th April, 1949.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
17 & 18 Geo. 5, "lock-out" means the closing of a place of employment
c. 22, s.
(Cap. 64.)
Illegal strikes and lock-outs.
17 & 18 Geo. 5, S. 8 (2) (c).
c. 20, s. 1.
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or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;
"strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons
employed acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding, of any number of persons who are or have been employed, to continue to work or to accept employment; and "trade union" and "trade dispute" shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance.
3. (1) A strike shall be illegal if it has any object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the strikers are engaged and is a strike designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by inflicting hardship upon the community or any substantial portion of the community; and it shall be an offence to commence or to continue, or to apply any sums in furtherance or support of, any such illegal strike.
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