HONG KONG
No 16 of 1949.
I assent.
Малкат
Governor.
28th April, 1949.
An Ordinanca lu 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 Government, and to prevent breaches of contract of service the consequence of which may be injurious to the public.
[29th April, 1949.1
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Megal Strikes and Short title. Lock-outs Ordinance, 1949,
2. In this Ordinance-
Interpreta-
tion,
"lock-out" means the closing of a place of employment 17 & 18 or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to Gen. 5. continue to employ any antiber of persons employed by him in 22, 1.8. 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 cost
editions 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 nuraber of persons who are or have been employed, to continue to work or to accept employment; and