Repeal of pection TA.
3.
Araçadment
of section 34.
Amendmeni
of Schedule.
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preceding year less an amount equal to one twelfth of such annual sum for each month during the whole or part of which an exchange line is withdrawn from service.
(2) For each exchange line brought into service during the current year, there shall be payable by way of royalty a sum equal to one twelfth of the annual royalty charge for an existing line for each month during the whole or part of which such line is in service.
(3) (a) The company shall make monthly payments not later than the 15th day of each month on account of the annual royalty, and the amount of each such payment shall be—
(1) a sum equal to one twelfth of the annual royalty for each exchange line in service on the last day of the preceding month; or
(ii) such num as the Financial Secretary may determine.
(b) As soon as the total som for the curresit year has been ascertained a final adjustment shall be made not later than the last day of the following January and the Government shall refund any sum paid on account in excess of the royalty due for that year or, if the amounts paid on account by the company are less than the royalty due, the company shall pay the Government the balance thereof.".
Section 7A of the principal Ordinance is repealed.
4. Section 34 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the sub- stitution of a full stop for the comma after the word "required" and the deletion of the remainder of the section thereafter.
5.
The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended, in Parts I, II and IV, by the deletion of column 4.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 10th day of February, 1965, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
HONG YONE
No. 8 of 1965.
I assent
Wrench.
Governor.
11th February, 1965.
An Ordinance to control contracts of employment entered into in the Colony by manual workers proceeding overseas for employment and the obtaining and supply of such workers and to provide for matters ancillary thereto.
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Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows ---
PART I
PRELIMINARY.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Contracts for Overseas Short title. Employment Ordinance 1965.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat FR4/1026/57)
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labour;
Inter-
pretation.