(57 & 58 Vict. c. 60).
Contracting out.
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(2) This Ordinance shall also apply to any person, not being a master, seaman, or apprentice to the sea service, employed or engaged in any capacity on board and on or about the business of a Hong Kong ship and if he is otherwise a workman within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(3) This Ordinance shall not apply to soch persons employed on a Hong Kong ship as are remunerated wholly or mainly by shares in the profits or the gross earnings of the working of such vessel except in such cases and subject to such modifications as the Governor in Council may by order provide,
(4) In this section--
"Hong Kong ship" includes. -
(a) any ship or vessel registered or licensed in the Colony and any other British ship or vessel the working of which is managed by a person who resides or hus his principal place of business in the Colony; and
(b) any ship or vessel not forming part of Her Majesty's Navy which is owned by Her Majesty in respect of Her Government of the Colony
"ship", "vessel", "seaman" and "master" shall bave The respective meanings ascribed to them by the Merchant Ship- ping Act, 1894.
29. Any contract or agreement whether made before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, whereby a workman relin- quishes any right to compensation from an employer for personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employ- ment, shall be null and void in so far as it purports to remove or reduce the liability of any person to pay compensation under the provisions of this Ordinance :
Provided that a workman, who has obtained compensation in respect of permanent partial or permanent total incapacity, may enter into a contract reducing or giving up bis right to compensa- tion under the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of any further personal injury by accident if such contract is certified to be fair and reasonable by the Commissioner of Labour,
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30. Compensation payable under the provisions of this Ordin. Compensa ance shall not be capable of being assigned, charged or attached, to bo and shall not pass to any other person by operation of law nor shall any claim be set off against such compensation.
unsigned, charged or attached,
of insurance
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31. An employer who, for the purpose of defraying or partly Deduction defraying the cost of insurance in respect of his liability to pay premiums compensation under the provisions of this Ordinance, makes any from deduction from the earnings of a workman in his employ, shall to be en
offence. be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.
32. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Regula- make regulations→→
(a) requiring employers to make periodic or other returns as to such matters as he may think fit, and prescribing a time limit for the making of such returns;
(b) requiring insurers carrying on in the Colony the business of insuring employers against their liabilities under this Ordinance to make periodic or other returns as to such matters as lie may think fit, and prescribing a time limit for the making of such returns;
(e) prescribing procedure, forms and fees;
(d) prescribing anything which is to be or may be prescribed
under this Ordinance;
(e) for generally carrying into effect the provisions of this
Ordinance and of any regulations made bereunder.
(2) Any regulations made under this Ordinance may provide that such contraventions thereof as may be specified shall consti- tute an offence and may provide for the punishment of any such offence on summary conviction by a fine of five hundred dollars and by imprisonment for a term of three months.
trena.
33. The Chief Justice may make Rules of Court for regulating Rules of proceedings before the Court under the provisions of this Ordin- Court, ance, and for the fees payable in respect thereof.